Milestone at Sx246843 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1988. Milestone.

Milestone at Sx246843

WRENN ID
stony-obsidian-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1988
Type
Milestone
Address
Milestone at Sx246843, Laneast
OS grid reference
SX 246 843
Coordinates
50.63267, -4.48058
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a 19th-century milestone made of granite, standing about 70 centimetres high. It has a rounded head and features curved, painted lettering in sans-serif upper case that reads "L6," indicating the distance to Launceston.

Local climate

Milestone at Sx246843 sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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