Milestone, Outside the Post Office and Stores
MILESTONE, OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE AND STORES, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056154
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone, Outside the Post Office and Stores
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE, OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE AND STORES, NORTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056154
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone, Outside the Post Office and Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE, OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE AND STORES, NORTH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE, OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE AND STORES, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Haselbury Plucknett
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47212 10841
Details
ST4710 HASELBURY PLUCKNETT CP NORTH STREET (East side)
10/28 Milestone, outside the Post Office and Stores (not included on the list)
GV II Milestone. Early C18. Ham stone pillar with cast iron plaque. Stone about 500mm wide x 200mm thick x 1.1m high, with triangular top: plaque about 300mm wide and 220m high, including a double-ogee top, reads: 'VII/YEOVIL', the town name set on slight curve. The road through the village was the main Salisbury to Exeter route by 1675, but was bypassed soon after 1840: it was the principal road maintained, from 1753, by the Yeovil Trust. (Bentley, J.B and Murless B.J, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST4721210841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262277
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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