City Post in Front of No 242 is a Grade II listed building in the Spelthorne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1982. Monument.
City Post in Front of No 242
- WRENN ID
- floating-pier-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Spelthorne
- Constituency
- Spelthorne MP: Lincoln Jopp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1982
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- City Post in Front of No 242, Chertsey Bridge Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 054 667
- Coordinates
- 51.38968, -0.48558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The City Post in front of No 242 on Chertsey Bridge Road was built in 1861. It is made of cast iron and has a square shape with chamfered corners. The post features a cornice and capping, and displays a city shield on its west face, along with a legend referencing the Act of Parliament below.
Local climate
City Post in Front of No 242 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% 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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