MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150

MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150, SHAFTESBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200764
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150, SHAFTESBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200764
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150, SHAFTESBURY ROAD

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:: MILEPOST IN FRONT OF NUMBER 150, SHAFTESBURY ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Donhead St. Andrew
National Grid Reference:: ST 92568 23503

Details

DONHEAD ST. ANDREW SHAFTESBURY ROAD ST 92 SW (south side)

7/16 Milepost in front of No 150

II

Milepost. Mid C19, cast-iron post with triangular front and sloping flat top, raised panel to right face with lettering SALISBURY / 16, panel to left with SHASTON / 4, chamfered front of post with name of parish, DONHEAD ST ANDREW. One of a series of cast-iron mileposts on the A30, made by Cockey a firm of ironfounders in Frome. Salisbury to Shaftesbury road turnpiked 1787-88. (R- Haynes, Wiltshire Milestones, Leisure in Wiltshire, 1968)

Listing NGR: ST9256823503

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Legacy System number:: 320799
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Haynes, R , 'County Councils Gazette' in Wiltshire Milestones, (1968)

Legal

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