Gatepost on Road from Widecombe to Natsworthy, at South West Side of the Entrance to the Lane to the Kingshead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1986. Monument.
Gatepost on Road from Widecombe to Natsworthy, at South West Side of the Entrance to the Lane to the Kingshead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-step-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Gatepost on Road from Widecombe to Natsworthy, at South West Side of the Entrance to the Lane to the Kingshead Farmhouse, Widecombe in the Moor, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 716 770
- Coordinates
- 50.57908, -3.81423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This gatepost, located on the road from Widecombe to Natsworthy at the south-west side of the entrance to the lane leading to Kingshead Farmhouse, is possibly medieval in origin. It is a slightly tapering granite monolith, roughly oblong in shape and about 1.5 metres high. An incised cross is found at the top of the north-east face, just above the gate-catch. According to Mr. E. N. Masson Phillips, this cross may hold significance as it stands near the 15th century Churchway.
Local climate
Gatepost on Road from Widecombe to Natsworthy, at South West Side of the Entrance to the Lane to the Kingshead Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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