CAST IRON FINGER POST CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS

CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS, FRENSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253073
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: CAST IRON FINGER POST CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS
Statutory Address:: CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS, FRENSHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1253073
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1993
List Entry Name:: CAST IRON FINGER POST CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS
Statutory Address 1:: CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS, FRENSHAM ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: CAST IRON FINGER POST, A287 MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CAST IRON FINGER POST AT MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS, FRENSHAM ROAD
Statutory Address:: CAST IRON FINGER POST, A287 MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Frensham
National Grid Reference:: SU 84806 42344

Details

In the entry for:

SU 84 SW FRENSHAM A287 MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS

525-/3/10004 Cast iron finger post

II

the description shall be amended to read as follows:

Finger post, probably late C19. Cast iron structure with central post an 8-sided column on a plinth with 2 bands about 2 ft above the base, a decorative finial and 4 sign boards, 2 arms high and 2 arms lower, terminating in hands with extended index fingers. One high board reads 'TO SHORTFIELD COMMON ½ MILE - BATTS CORNER 2½ MILES.' Other high board reads 'TO TILFORD 2½ MILES - ELSTEAD 5½ - GODALMING 8½.' One low board reads 'TO FRENSHAM POND 1¼ MILES - CHURT 2½ - HINDHEAD 7.' Other low board reads 'TO FARNHAM 3 MILES'. A rare and decorative type of signpost. This finger post is situated in the garden of Alison Cottage, The Reeds Road.

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The following item shall be added:

SU 84 SW FRENSHAM A287 MILLBRIDGE CROSSROADS

525-/3/10004 Cast iron finger post

II

Finger post, probably late C19. Cast iron structure with central post with decorative finial and 2 sign boards terminating in hands with extended index fingers. Left side board reads "TO SHORTFIELD COMMON ½ MILE - BATTS CORNER 2½ MILES". Right side board reads "TO TILFORD 2½ MILES - ELSTEAD 5½ MILES - GODALMING 8½ MILES". A rare and decorative type of signpost.

Listing NGR: SU8480642344

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 436203
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.