Coal Tax Post Outside Cricketfield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Tax post.
Coal Tax Post Outside Cricketfield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-moulding-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Tax post
- Address
- Coal Tax Post Outside Cricketfield Cottage, Littleworth Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 147 644
- Coordinates
- 51.36725, -0.3534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The coal tax post outside Cricketfield Cottage dates from around 1860 and is made of metal. It stands approximately 4½ feet high and features a four-legged plinth with a stop-chamfered pier above, topped by a moulded capital band with a pyramidal top. The front of the capital band displays a cast shield of the City of London, and there is lettering on the pier that reads: "24 & 25 CAP VICT. 42". This post served as a boundary marker indicating where duty was payable on coal and wine, with the coal tax originating in the 1660s.
Local climate
Coal Tax Post Outside Cricketfield Cottage 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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