Milestone 250 Metres to South West of Polroad Cottages
MILESTONE 250 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF POLROAD COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129866
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone 250 Metres to South West of Polroad Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE 250 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF POLROAD COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129866
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone 250 Metres to South West of Polroad Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE 250 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF POLROAD COTTAGES
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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.
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 250 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF POLROAD COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Kew
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0556778036
Details
SX 07 NE ST KEW
6/166 Milestone 250m to south west of
- Polroad Cottages
II
Milestone. Possibly 1837. Granite post, rectangular-on-plan with round top.
Incised inscription with black painted lettering ' 5 and bench mark.
CAM'
On Turnpike road between Camelford and Wadebridge. (see Acts 33 Geo. II cap xiii
(1760), 22 Geo. III cap. civ (1782), 1-2 Vic. cap. vi, 38-9 Vic. cap. cxciv).
Plan and section of new line of road from St Kew Highway to Knights Mill date 1837 in
Cornwall Record Office. (Official PD/T/3/1 (T)).
Cornwall Record Office Turnpikes, Canals and Ferries Handlist No. 5 1983.
Listing NGR: SX0556778036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351506
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Turnpikes Canals and Ferries, (1983)
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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