Milestone Outside of Close Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Milestone. 2 related planning applications.
Milestone Outside of Close Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hidden-railing-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Outside of Close Farmhouse, Embleton, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 182 307
- Coordinates
- 54.66516, -3.26837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dating from the early 19th century, is located outside Close Farmhouse and was originally part of the Cockermouth-Keswick Turnpike. It is made of whitewashed slate and features a shaped top. The front has a cast iron plate inscribed with the distances to Cockermouth (4 miles) and Keswick (9 miles), with the lettering highlighted in black.
Local climate
Milestone Outside of Close Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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