Guide Post at South West Corner of Cobbledicks Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Guide post.
Guide Post at South West Corner of Cobbledicks Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-joist-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post at South West Corner of Cobbledicks Cottage, Callington
- OS grid reference
- SX 347 679
- Coordinates
- 50.48784, -4.33038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post at the south west corner of Cobbledicks Cottage dates from 1764. It is made of granite and features a rectangular shape with a tapered section and a rounded head. The post is inscribed in upper case serif lettering that reads 'WHEEL ROAD TO CALLN'. Below the inscription, there is a rusticated panel. This guide post has been resited in or near its original position along the old turnpike road that ran through the hamlet of Newbridge. The turnpike act for the roads leading into Callington was established in 1764.
Local climate
Guide Post at South West Corner of Cobbledicks Cottage 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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