Road Sign at NGR St 3232 1730

ROAD SIGN AT NGR ST 3232 1730

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057104
Date first listed:
29-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Road Sign at NGR St 3232 1730
Statutory Address:
ROAD SIGN AT NGR ST 3232 1730
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057104
Date first listed:
29-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Road Sign at NGR St 3232 1730
Statutory Address 1:
ROAD SIGN AT NGR ST 3232 1730

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROAD SIGN AT NGR ST 3232 1730

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ashill
National Grid Reference:
ST3231217299

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/09/2015


ST31NW
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ASHILL CP,
ASHILL VILLAGE,
Road sign at NGR ST 3232 1730

II

Road sign at old entry into Ashill. Early C20. Cast iron, founded by W & F Wills of Bridgwater. Sign about 600mm x 300mm, rectangular with simple border and raised lettering reading 'ASHILL/PLEASE DRIVE/SLOWLY', set on at 'T' section post, top triangle missing. The road was diverted around the village in 1926-27. (Bentley JB and Murless BJ, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).


Listing NGR: ST3231217299

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
263908
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Road Sign at NGR St 3232 1730

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