Milepost outside No. 7 Hanky Terrace, Plymouth Street is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 January 2025. Milepost.

Milepost outside No. 7 Hanky Terrace, Plymouth Street

WRENN ID
frozen-bracket-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 January 2025
Type
Milepost
Address
Milepost outside No. 7 Hanky Terrace, Plymouth Street, Town
OS grid reference
SO 054 050
Coordinates
51.73576, -3.3706
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a cast iron milepost located outside No. 7 Hanky Terrace on Plymouth Street. The milepost is painted white with black lettering. The backplate has a pedimented design and displays the distance to London as "183". The left side indicates "CARDIFF / 23", while the right side shows "MERTHYR / 1". It features a chamfered triangular shape, a splayed base, and a slight plinth.

Local climate

Milepost outside No. 7 Hanky Terrace, Plymouth Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% 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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