Post, Piers and Spear Railings at North West End is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. Post, railings.
Post, Piers and Spear Railings at North West End
- WRENN ID
- keen-niche-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Post, railings
- Address
- Post, Piers and Spear Railings at North West End, Russell Way, Tavistock
- OS grid reference
- SX 478 743
- Coordinates
- 50.54894, -4.14873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
At the north-west end of Russell Way, there is an early 19th-century tapering octagonal granite post along with two square granite piers that feature gabled caps. Between the western pier and No 27 West Street, you will find cast iron spear railings. This structure is noted as an interesting urban relic.
Local climate
Post, Piers and Spear Railings at North West End sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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