Milestone at NGR St 5256 2116
MILESTONE AT NGR ST 5256 2116
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057238
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at NGR St 5256 2116
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE AT NGR ST 5256 2116
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057238
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at NGR St 5256 2116
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE AT NGR ST 5256 2116
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 AT NGR ST 5256 2116
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilthorne Domer
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52565 21170
Details
ST51NW CHILTHORNE DOMER CP
1/49 Milestone at NGR ST 5256 2116 - - II Milestone. C19. Ham stone pillar, cast iron plaque. Pillar about 450 mm wide x 250 mm thick x 500 mm high, triangular top. Plaque 360 mm wide x 420 mm deep; with smouldered segmental top and double ogee curve base, and reads: '/ILCHESTER on curve)/1/YEOVIL/4". This road was maintained by the Ilchester Trust and turpiked in 1753. (Somerset Roads, SIAS, Bentley and Murless, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST5256521170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263504
- 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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