Guide Post Near the South End of Alpha Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Guide post. 1 related planning application.
Guide Post Near the South End of Alpha Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-slate-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post Near the South End of Alpha Cottage, Gweek
- OS grid reference
- SW 706 268
- Coordinates
- 50.0973, -5.20804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guide post, located near the south end of Alpha Cottage, dates from the early 20th century and is made of cast iron. It features a round shaft with embossed letters and three adjustable pointers. The pointers, which have rounded corners, are attached to the upper part of the shaft by bolted collars that sit above a moulded cornice. Each collar is topped with a moulded ball and a spear-headed finial. The shaft is inscribed with "CORNWALL" vertically, while the pointers indicate distances to various locations: the west pointer shows REDRUTH at 10 miles and TRURO at 16 miles; the south pointer shows HELSTON at 3¾ miles, LIZARD at 11 miles, and ST KEVERNE at 10¼ miles; and the east pointer shows CONSTANTINE at 2½ miles, PENRYN at 8½ miles, and FALMOUTH at 9½ miles.
Local climate
Guide Post Near the South End of Alpha Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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