Milestone at Ngr 738 595 South of Blue Post Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1993. Milestone.
Milestone at Ngr 738 595 South of Blue Post Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- unlit-cellar-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1993
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Ngr 738 595 South of Blue Post Farmhouse, Harberton
- OS grid reference
- SX 738 594
- Coordinates
- 50.42173, -3.7774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone dating from the early 19th century, located south of Blue Post Farmhouse. It is made of white painted granite and has a square shape, set diagonally to the road. The back is roughly hewn, while the two dressed sides on the right have rounded tops. The front faces feature black painted lettering carved in lower case with serifs, indicating distances: "To Plymth 18 miles. To Totnes 4 miles."
Local climate
Milestone at Ngr 738 595 South of Blue Post Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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