Direction Post at Five Lanes at the Junction of the Roads to Hennock Village and Warmhill is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Direction post.
Direction Post at Five Lanes at the Junction of the Roads to Hennock Village and Warmhill
- WRENN ID
- south-hall-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Direction post
- Address
- Direction Post at Five Lanes at the Junction of the Roads to Hennock Village and Warmhill, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 830 801
- Coordinates
- 50.6092, -3.65429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The direction post at Five Lanes, located at the junction of the roads to Hennock Village and Warmhill, dates from the early 19th century and is made of granite. It has a five-sided shape with a roughly shaped top. Each side features a carved inscription with serif lettering. The inscriptions indicate directions: "TO S. BOVEY" on the south-west side, "TO MORETON" on the north-west side, "TO HENNOCK" on the north-east side, "TO EXETER" on the east side, and "TO CHUDLEIGH" on the south-east side.
Local climate
Direction Post at Five Lanes at the Junction of the Roads to Hennock Village and Warmhill 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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