Milestone 100 Metres to North West of Darracott Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. A C19 Milestone.
Milestone 100 Metres to North West of Darracott Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-balcony-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1989
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SX 291 929
- Coordinates
- 50.7107, -4.4208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located 100 metres to the northwest of Darracott Cottage, is likely from the early 19th century. It is made of granite and features a rectangular shape with a pointed top. The milestone is inscribed with the distances to Launceston (6 miles), Bude (13 miles), and Kilhampton (13 miles) in both upper and lower case lettering.
Local climate
Milestone 100 Metres to North West of Darracott Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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