Guidestone at SW 908647 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Guidestone.

Guidestone at SW 908647

WRENN ID
stranded-cobble-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 May 1988
Type
Guidestone
Address
Guidestone at SW 908647, St. Columb Major
OS grid reference
SW 908 647
Coordinates
50.44504, -4.94678
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 19th-century guidestone made of painted granite. It stands about one metre high and has a roughly hewn, triangular shape. The stone features carved and painted lettering in sans-serif upper case, along with directional arrows pointing to Talskiddy, St Wenn, Mawgan, and St Columb.

Local climate

Guidestone at SW 908647 receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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