Guidepost at Sw364262 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Guide post.

Guidepost at Sw364262

WRENN ID
dusk-tower-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Guide post
Address
Guidepost at Sw364262, Sennen
OS grid reference
SW 364 261
Coordinates
50.0773, -5.68484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a guide post dated 1834, located in Sennen. It is a triangular-shaped dressed granite monolith featuring incised inscriptions on its two sides that face the road. Each side includes hand-painted pointers. The left side has the inscription "TO PENZANCE" in a segmental curve, along with the date "1834." The right side displays the inscriptions "TO BURYAN" and "PAUL."

Local climate

Guidepost at Sw364262 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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