Guide Post Sw778287 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Guide post.
Guide Post Sw778287
- WRENN ID
- peeling-terrace-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post Sw778287, Mawnan
- OS grid reference
- SW 777 287
- Coordinates
- 50.11689, -5.1096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guide post, dating from the early 20th century, is made of cast iron and features a round shaft. It has four adjustable pointers that sit above a moulded collar and are topped with a moulded, conical finial. Each pointer is connected to its collar with integral coved brackets and has canted ends, along with embossed inscriptions. The left-hand pointer indicates distances to Helford Passage (1½ miles), Port Navas (2¾ miles), and Helston (10½ miles). The second pointer shows the distance to Mawnan Church (1¼ miles). The third pointer indicates Budcock (2¼ miles), while the right-hand pointer lists distances to Penryn (4½ miles), Falmouth (5¼ miles), and Truro (12¾ miles).
Local climate
Guide Post Sw778287 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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