Direction Port at Leigh Crossroads is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1987. Direction post.
Direction Port at Leigh Crossroads
- WRENN ID
- ruined-steeple-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1987
- Type
- Direction post
- Address
- Direction Port at Leigh Crossroads, Hennock, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 841 808
- Coordinates
- 50.61603, -3.63885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The direction post at Leigh Crossroads is an early 19th-century granite structure. It features a square-section post with a head that is cut back and splayed. On the east side, it is carved with "TO EXETER," while the south-west side indicates "TO BOVEY," accompanied by a direction arrow. The north-west side is marked "TO HENNOCK."
Local climate
Direction Port at Leigh Crossroads receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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