GUIDE POST (AT SW395276)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312322
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: GUIDE POST (AT SW395276)
Statutory Address:: GUIDE POST (AT SW395276)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1312322
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1988
List Entry Name:: GUIDE POST (AT SW395276)
Statutory Address 1:: GUIDE POST (AT SW395276)

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:: GUIDE POST (AT SW395276)

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
National Grid Reference:: SW3953227621

Details

ST BURYAN CROWS-AN-WRA SW 32 NE 4/99 Guide post (at SW395276) - II GV Guide post. C18 or early C19. Painted dressed granite monolith with integral plinth and pyramidal cap with moulded cornice. Triangular on plan with cable carved and ogee upper stop to chamfered front corner between the 2 inscribed sides. Incised inscriptions with place names written as round-headed arches. Left-hand inscription: TO PENZANCE 5½ MILES TO LANDS END 4½ MILES Right-hand inscription: TO ST JUST 3 MILES There is a hand pointer to St Just and scrolled decoration around the word Miles. Carved by Billy Foss of Sancreed, early C19.

Listing NGR: SW3950027600

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

Legacy System number:: 69652
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.