Direction Post is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1986. A Victorian Direction post.
Direction Post
- WRENN ID
- dark-flagstone-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1986
- Type
- Direction post
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Direction Post, Eastington
- OS grid reference
- SO 774 053
- Coordinates
- 51.74599, -2.32763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a memorial direction post with a drinking fountain, built in 1897 for Charles Henry Hooper. The post is made of limestone and stands on a red sandstone base, featuring cast iron arms. It is designed in the shape of a churchyard cross, with a cross gabled head topped by a crown. Two direction arms attached to the head indicate 'GLOUCESTER/BRISTOL' and 'STONEHOUSE/STROUD'. There was a third arm, now removed, which likely read 'FROCESTER/TETBURY'. Each arm has a scrolled underside bracket and an end. The octagonal post has a moulded square base with recessed inscription panels on three sides that read: 'VICTORIA/DG REG/1837', 'VICTORIA/DG REG/1897', and 'XEMORIAL/ANNO LX'. There is a small drinking fountain, now eroded, in a recess on the fourth side, which has a shell hood. This post was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and is located at the center of a 20th-century traffic island.
Local climate
Direction Post receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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