Milepost by Crack Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 July 2003. Milepost.
Milepost by Crack Hill House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 July 2003
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost by Crack Hill House, Colwinston, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- OS grid reference
- SS 940 767
- Coordinates
- 51.47995, -3.52653
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is an ornately moulded cast-iron milepost in Gothic style, dating from 1835, located by Crack Hill House on the A48 to the west of Cardiff. The milepost features rectangular panels at the base, with the lower panel displaying the date '1835' and the upper panel stating 'Colwinston Parish'. Above this, there is a tall crowning tablet with a rounded head, which has the inscription 'Cowbridge District' at the top. The lower part of this tablet has two pointed panels; the left one is inscribed 'To Cowbridge 4' and the right one is inscribed 'To Bridgend 3'. Below these, a segmental panel is inscribed 'London 174', situated above the rectangular panels at the base. Similar listed mileposts can be found in the City of Cardiff, specifically on Cowbridge Road East and West, as well as in the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans.
Local climate
Milepost by Crack Hill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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