Guidepost at Longstone is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1988. A Victorian Guide post.
Guidepost at Longstone
- WRENN ID
- lesser-spandrel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1988
- Type
- Guide post
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Guidepost at Longstone, St. Mabyn
- OS grid reference
- SX 060 733
- Coordinates
- 50.52803, -4.73749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guidepost at Longstone is a structure dating from around the early 19th century, made of granite. It features a tall square section shaft topped with a large square cap that has a pyramid-shaped top. On the four faces of the cap, directions to St Tudy, Camelford, Blisland, Liskeard, Bodmin, St Austell, St Mabyn, and Wadebridge are marked in uppercase lettering. There is also a wrought iron shaft on top of the cap, which may have been used for direction pointers.
Local climate
Guidepost at Longstone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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