Guide Post at Sw617374 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. Guide post.
Guide Post at Sw617374
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lantern-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1988
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post at Sw617374, Gwinear-Gwithian
- OS grid reference
- SW 617 374
- Coordinates
- 50.18929, -5.33941
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post located on the village green in Carnhell Green, Gwinear-Gwithian, dates from the early 20th century. It is made of painted cast iron and features a round post with four adjustable pointers on collars, all topped with a ball and spear-head finial. The shaft and pointers have letters and Arabic numerals in relief. The inscriptions on the guide post include "CORNWALL" on the shaft, with the north pointer indicating distances to Gwinear Road Station (3/4 mile) and Gwithian (3 miles), the west pointer showing distances to Gwinear (1½ miles) and Fraddam (2¾ miles), the second north pointer listing Camborne (2½ miles), and the south pointer indicating distances to Praze-an-Beeble (2¼ miles), Crowan (3½ miles), and Helston (8½ miles).
Local climate
Guide Post at Sw617374 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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