Guidepost at Sx 135682 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1988. Guidepost.

Guidepost at Sx 135682

WRENN ID
silent-spindle-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1988
Type
Guidepost
Address
Guidepost at Sx 135682, Cardinham
OS grid reference
SX 135 682
Coordinates
50.4845, -4.62961
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Guidepost, late 19th century. This guidepost is a granite monolith, roughly hewn, with a square plan and stands about one metre high. At the top, it has a replacement iron shaft, featuring a cast iron collar. Wrought iron brackets support 20th-century wooden sign boards, which display painted lettering in lower case: Mount and Warleggan, Maidenwell, Cardinham, and Bodmin.

Local climate

Guidepost at Sx 135682 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% 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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