Direction Post at Five Wyches Crossroads is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Direction post.
Direction Post at Five Wyches Crossroads
- WRENN ID
- proud-footing-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Direction post
- Address
- Direction Post at Five Wyches Crossroads, Bovey Tracey
- OS grid reference
- SX 805 783
- Coordinates
- 50.59221, -3.68892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The direction post at Five Wychers Crossroads is an early 19th-century granite structure. It has a square-section post with a shaped top. On the east face, it is carved with "TO BOVEY," although the first letter is defaced. The south face features the carving "TO WIDDICOMBE," along with a direction arrow and the word "HAYTOR" beneath it. The north face displays the carving "TO MANATON AND LUSTLEIGH." This post is located at the apex of a road junction.
Local climate
Direction Post at Five Wyches Crossroads receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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