Milestone on East Side by Drive to Lower Penn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Milestone.
Milestone on East Side by Drive to Lower Penn Cottages
- WRENN ID
- crooked-banister-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone on East Side by Drive to Lower Penn Cottages, Calne Road, Hilmarton
- OS grid reference
- SU 013 743
- Coordinates
- 51.46844, -1.98193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dating from the 19th century, is located on the east side by the drive to Lower Penn Cottages. It is made of pennant stone and is inscribed with the distances to Swindon, which is 14 miles away, and Calne, which is 2 miles away.
Local climate
Milestone on East Side by Drive to Lower Penn Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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