Sign Post Approximately 40 Metres East of the Drum Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. Sign post.

Sign Post Approximately 40 Metres East of the Drum Public House

WRENN ID
crumbling-facade-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torbay
Constituency
Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1994
Type
Sign post
OS grid reference
SX 893 638
Coordinates
50.46412, -3.56044
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a sign post located approximately 40 metres east of The Drum Public House in Torquay, dating from around 1934. It was designed as part of a scheme by Sir Edwin Lutyens for The Drum. The sign post is made of timber and features chamfered and stopped edges, supporting a cross beam. One end of the beam has a shaped wrought-iron bracket, from which the sign hangs. The sign itself features a painting of Drake's Drum by Dame Laura Knight. This sign post is part of a particularly attractive group of listed buildings in the well-preserved village and nearby Cockington Park.

Local climate

Sign Post Approximately 40 Metres East of the Drum Public House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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