Milepost Opposite Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Milepost.
Milepost Opposite Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- keen-iron-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Opposite Methodist Church, Penberthy Road, Portreath
- OS grid reference
- SW 659 452
- Coordinates
- 50.26073, -5.285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milepost located opposite the Methodist Church on Penberthy Road in Portreath. It was likely made in the later 19th century and is constructed from dressed granite. The milepost has a triangular shape and stands approximately one metre high. Each of the outer faces features a sunk panel that is inscribed with the distances: "POOL" and "REDRUTH 3 4".
Local climate
Milepost Opposite Methodist Church receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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