MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687

MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116989
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116989
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687, WEST 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT NGR ST4637 1687, WEST STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke sub Hamdon
National Grid Reference:: ST 46368 16874

Details

ST41NE STOKE SUB HAMDON CP WEST STREET (South side) 2/342 Milestone at NGR ST 4637 1687 - - II Milestone. Early C19 probably. Ham stone pillar, cast iron plaque. Pillar triangular on plan, about 475 mm wide on principal faces and 350mm wide at back, about 850mm high, with slightly segmental top: plaques 420m and 360mm long, 100mm deep, with curved drop under, reading "YEOVIL 6 and a half" on west side and ILMINSTER 7" on east. This road was one of the original roads administered by the Ilminster Trust, set up in 1759, and was turnpiked in that year (Bentley J B and Murless B J, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST4636816874

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 442477
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.