Milestone Opposite Star Road is a Grade II listed building in the Hounslow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 2003. A N/A Milestone.
Milestone Opposite Star Road
- WRENN ID
- rusted-panel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hounslow
- Constituency
- Brentford and Isleworth MP: Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 2003
- Type
- Milestone
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Milestone Opposite Star Road, London Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 148 761
- Coordinates
- 51.47238, -0.34768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milestone opposite Star Road is a cast iron milestone dating from 1834. It has a triangular shape with an arched head that is inscribed with "HESTON PARISH" above the pedimented sides. The sides display the distances to London (9 miles) and Hounslow (1 mile). This milestone is part of a series of similar milestones that were erected along the London Road, which is one of the main historical routes leading into London from the west.
Local climate
Milestone Opposite Star Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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