MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247

MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247, PRESTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287162
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247
Statutory Address:: MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247, PRESTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287162
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247
Statutory Address 1:: MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247, PRESTON 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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILEPOST OUTSIDE NUMBER 247, PRESTON ROAD

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

District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 55665 10924

Details

STANDISH-WITH-LANGTREE PRESTON ROAD SD 51 SE (east side) 2/124 Milepost outside - No. 247 - II Milepost. Dated 1837. Cast iron. Short fluted flat post supports segmental-headed rectangular plate with decorative cresting. Lettering reads:" LANGTREE/4 MILES TO WIGAN//23 MILES TO PRESTON/(1837)".

Listing NGR: SD5566510924

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Legacy System number:: 403072
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.