Guide Post at Sw704354 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Guide post.

Guide Post at Sw704354

WRENN ID
heavy-threshold-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1988
Type
Guide post
Address
Guide Post at Sw704354, Wendron
OS grid reference
SW 703 354
Coordinates
50.1749, -5.21718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This guide post, dating from the late 19th century, was manufactured by Visick and Sons in Devoran. It is made of cast iron and features a round fluted shaft topped with a bracketted round hub or collars. Three pointers are bolted to the hub and are capped by a moulded finial with an ogee shape. The pointers are attached at their lower corners and have rounded edges with embossed inscriptions. The left-hand (west) pointer indicates distances to Stithians (3 miles), Redruth (4.5 miles), Camborne (6 miles), and Fourlanes (6 miles). The middle pointer shows distances to Porkellis (1.5 miles) and Helston (6 miles). The right-hand pointer lists Rame (2 miles) and Penryn (6 miles).

Local climate

Guide Post at Sw704354 receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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