Guidepost 25m NE of St Keverne Beacon is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 2017. Guidepost.
Guidepost 25m NE of St Keverne Beacon
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-steeple-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 2017
- Type
- Guidepost
- OS grid reference
- SW 773 198
- Coordinates
- 50.03749, -5.11048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guidepost, dated 1838, is located at a junction between the B3293, B3294, and an unclassified road in St Keverne. This rectangular stone structure has a flat top. The south face features black painted lettering that reads "GWENTER/ST/KEVERNE," along with representations of a pointing hand both above and below the lettering. The west face is inscribed with "COVERACK" and also includes a pointing hand below the lettering. The date 1838 is inscribed below the pointing hand on the south face, and there is an un-painted Ordnance Survey benchmark at the bottom of the stone.
Local climate
Guidepost 25m NE of St Keverne Beacon receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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