Guide Post 500 Metres to North West of Tredethy is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1988. Guide post. 1 related planning application.
Guide Post 500 Metres to North West of Tredethy
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-wicket-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1988
- Type
- Guide post
- OS grid reference
- SX 057 721
- Coordinates
- 50.51646, -4.74099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This guide post, located 500 metres to the northwest of Tredethy, dates from the mid-19th century. It is made of granite and features a short octagonal shaft topped with a pyramidal cap. The cap displays directions to St Mabyn and Port Isaac, St Tudy and Camelford, and Helland and Bodmin, all marked in upper case lettering on its four faces.
Local climate
Guide Post 500 Metres to North West of Tredethy 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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