Post, 400 Yards West of Skew Arch at Ngr Tq 13916572 is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Post.

Post, 400 Yards West of Skew Arch at Ngr Tq 13916572

WRENN ID
tangled-steel-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Post
OS grid reference
TQ 139 657
Coordinates
51.37911, -0.36464
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a post located approximately 400 yards west of Skew Arch in Esher, dating from around 1860. It stands about 4½ feet high and is made of metal. The post features a four-legged plinth with a stop-chamfered pier above, which is topped with a moulded capital band and a pyramidal top. A shield of the City of London is cast on the front, with lettering below on the pier. This post served as a coal and wine tax marker, indicating the boundary where duty was payable, with the coal tax dating back to the 1660s.

Local climate

Post, 400 Yards West of Skew Arch at Ngr Tq 13916572 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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