Milestone at SX 01840 52396 on Alexandra Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 2012. Milestone.
Milestone at SX 01840 52396 on Alexandra Road
- WRENN ID
- scarred-gutter-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 2012
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SX 018 523
- Coordinates
- 50.33806, -4.7861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a dressed granite milestone located on the north side of Alexandra Road, set into a stone boundary wall. The milestone is rectangular in shape with a rounded top and stands approximately 1 meter high. The south-facing side of the stone is inscribed in relief with the words "St AUSTELL / ½ / MILE / TRURO / XIV / MILES." The stone is painted white, with the numbers highlighted in black. Additionally, an Ordnance Survey benchmark is inscribed on the lower part of the face.
Local climate
Milestone at SX 01840 52396 on Alexandra Road receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 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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