Milestone, East of Junction with Rectory Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1999. A Georgian Milestone.

Milestone, East of Junction with Rectory Avenue

WRENN ID
under-keep-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Portsmouth
Constituency
Portsmouth North MP: Amanda Martin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1999
Type
Milestone
Period
Georgian
Address
Milestone, East of Junction with Rectory Avenue, Havant Road, City of Portsmouth
OS grid reference
SU 687 058
Coordinates
50.84792, -1.02423
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milestone located east of the junction with Rectory Avenue, dating from the 18th century. It is made of Portland stone and features a square pillar with an applied cast-iron plate. The plate is inscribed with the distances: "Havant 2 miles, Ports. 7 miles."

Local climate

Milestone, East of Junction with Rectory Avenue receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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