MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE)

MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102531
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102531
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE OPPOSITE NUMBER 9 (MUSHROOM COTTAGE), HIGH STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Graveley
National Grid Reference:: TL 23149 27712

Details

GRAVELEY HIGH STREET TL 2327 (East side)

13/15 Milestone opposite - No. 9 (Mushroom Cottage)

- II

Milestone. C18. For the Stevenage-Biggleswade Turnpike Trust (founded 1720). White freestone probably Portland Stone. On roadside verge to S of layby, a milestone about 15 inches square and standing about 27 inches out of the ground. The top cut as a blunt pyramid. On N face an inscription in deeply cut C18 lettering, '33/MILES/from/LONDON'. Similar inscription much weathered on S face suggests stone reversed when inscription required recutting. (Branch Johnson (1970)187).

Listing NGR: TL2314927712

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Legacy System number:: 162628
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 187

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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.