Coal Tax Post Outside Lessworth at Ngr Tq 14806474 is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Coal tax post.
Coal Tax Post Outside Lessworth at Ngr Tq 14806474
- WRENN ID
- nether-rubblework-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Coal tax post
- Address
- Coal Tax Post Outside Lessworth at Ngr Tq 14806474, Littleworth Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 148 647
- Coordinates
- 51.37011, -0.35212
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a coal tax post located outside "Lessworth" in Esher, dating from around 1860. It is made of metal and stands approximately 4½ feet high. The post features a four-legged plinth with a stop-chamfered pier above, topped by a moulded capital band and a pyramidal top. On the front of the capital band, there is a cast shield of the City of London, and below on the pier, the lettering reads: "24 & 25 CAP VICT. 42". This post served as a marker for the boundary where duty was payable on coal, a tax that has origins dating back to the 1660s.
Local climate
Coal Tax Post Outside Lessworth at Ngr Tq 14806474 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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