Finger Signpost at Sw873351 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 2004. Road signpost.

Finger Signpost at Sw873351

WRENN ID
steep-plinth-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 October 2004
Type
Road signpost
Address
Finger Signpost at Sw873351, Gerrans Square
OS grid reference
SW 872 351
Coordinates
50.17807, -4.9813
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a finger signpost located in Gerrans, dating from the early 20th century. It is made of cast iron and features a slender tapered post with incised barley sugar moulding, ring-moulding halfway up, necking, coving, and a ball-finial at the top. The signpost has three arms with pointing fingers at the ends, each inscribed with names: Portscatha, Tregoney and St Austell, and Portcuil and St Anthony, which are old spellings of Portscatha, Tregoney, and Portcuil. This signpost is a notable early example of a county council road signpost with pointing fingers on the arms.

Local climate

Finger Signpost at Sw873351 receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% 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 0.2°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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