Milepost Beside Woodland Cottage (Shown As Penpraze on Os Map) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Milepost.

Milepost Beside Woodland Cottage (Shown As Penpraze on Os Map)

WRENN ID
open-pier-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Milepost
Address
Milepost Beside Woodland Cottage (Shown As Penpraze on Os Map), Cot Road, Illogan
OS grid reference
SW 656 442
Coordinates
50.25157, -5.28839
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a milepost located beside Woodland Cottage, which is shown as Penpraze on the Ordnance Survey map. It was likely made in the later 19th century and is constructed from dressed granite. The milepost has a triangular shape and is inscribed with the distances to Pool and Portreath, indicating 1 mile and 2 miles respectively.

Local climate

Milepost Beside Woodland Cottage (Shown As Penpraze on Os Map) 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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