Milestone Opposite Upper Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. A C19 Milestone.
Milestone Opposite Upper Cottage
- WRENN ID
- floating-forge-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Opposite Upper Cottage, London Road A4, Derry Hill & Studley
- OS grid reference
- ST 948 713
- Coordinates
- 51.44105, -2.07575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century milestone located on the north side of London Road (A4) in Pewsham, opposite Upper Cottage. It features a cast-iron plaque that is inscribed with the distance to Bath, which is 15 miles.
Local climate
Milestone Opposite Upper Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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