Mile Post at NW End of Westgate Street is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 January 1976. A C19 Milepost. 1 related planning application.
Mile Post at NW End of Westgate Street
- WRENN ID
- rusted-flint-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1976
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Mile Post at NW End of Westgate Street, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 178 764
- Coordinates
- 51.4809, -3.18391
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The mile post at the northwest end of Westgate Street is a rectangular structure featuring panels at its base. The lower panel is dated "1835," while the upper panel displays the words "Cardiff Town." Above this, there is a tall crowning tablet with a curved head, inscribed with "Cardiff District." The lower part of this tablet has two pointed-headed panels; the left one indicates "To Cowbridge 12" and the right one states "To Newport 12." Below these, a segmental panel is inscribed with "London 158," situated above the rectangular panels at the base.
Local climate
Mile Post at NW End of Westgate Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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