Post on East Side, Just South of Railway Embankment and North of Cranford House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. Post.
Post on East Side, Just South of Railway Embankment and North of Cranford House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-steeple-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Post
- Address
- Post on East Side, Just South of Railway Embankment and North of Cranford House, Maiden Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 524 746
- Coordinates
- 51.45071, 0.19196
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cast iron post dated 1864, located on the east side, just south of the railway embankment and north of Cranford House. It was created by the Regents Canal Company and features a square shape with chamfered corners. The post has two projecting, moulded cornices with a shield in the space between them, and a chamfered top. An inscription reads "24 & 25 VICT CAP 42". It stands on a plinth with moulded coping and marks a point for the collection of tax on coal entering London.
Local climate
Post on East Side, Just South of Railway Embankment and North of Cranford House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2000
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