Guide Post at Cross Roads is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Guide post.
Guide Post at Cross Roads
- WRENN ID
- still-chapel-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Guide post
- Address
- Guide Post at Cross Roads, Donhead St. Andrew
- OS grid reference
- ST 921 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00665, -2.11302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The guide post at the crossroads in Donhead St. Andrew dates from the mid-19th century. It is made of cast iron and features two shaped arms. The left arm has raised lettering that reads "BROOKWATER / DONHEAD & TISBURY," while the right arm displays "SHAFTESBURY / ASHMORE & TOLLARD." At the top of the post is an ogee finial. This guide post is a notable example of the surviving 19th-century guide posts in the area.
Local climate
Guide Post at Cross Roads receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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