Signpost, Lochead is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 November 2004. Signpost.
Signpost, Lochead
- WRENN ID
- haunted-screen-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 November 2004
- Type
- Signpost
- OS grid reference
- NX 327 493
- Coordinates
- 54.81072, -4.60367
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a painted cast-iron signpost located in Lochead, dating from around 1935 or 1950, with possibly later additions to the arms. The signpost features a tapered, green-painted post with ring shafts and a hoop finial that is inscribed with "SCOTTISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB" in raised lettering. The centre of the hoop displays a St Andrew's Cross. The signpost has four white-painted cast-iron arms, each featuring black raised lettering and black-painted edges.
Local climate
Signpost, Lochead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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