Milestone at SW 815 409 SW is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1986. Milestone.

Milestone at SW 815 409 SW

WRENN ID
sleeping-gateway-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone at SW 815 409 SW, Kea
OS grid reference
SW 815 409
Coordinates
50.2277, -5.06407
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This milestone, likely from the 18th century and re-cut around the early 19th century, is a painted, round-headed, rectangular-shaped granite monolith. It features an inscribed dressed panel on the west side, which includes incised lettering that reads "FROM" in sans serif style, along with a benchmark below. The milestone indicates a distance of "TRURO 3 MILES."

Local climate

Milestone at SW 815 409 SW receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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