GUIDE POST AT SW 640282

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328385
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: GUIDE POST AT SW 640282
Statutory Address:: GUIDE POST AT SW 640282

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328385
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: GUIDE POST AT SW 640282
Statutory Address 1:: GUIDE POST AT SW 640282

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 SW 640282

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sithney
National Grid Reference:: SW 63983 28232

Details

SW 62 NW SITHNEY

7/246 Guide post at SW 640282 - II

Guide post. Circa early C19. Partly painted dressed granite, the incised lettering painted black and the background painted white. Triangular-on-plan. Tall straight-sided shaft with pyramidal head. Inscribed on 2 sides, under each inscription a black-pointing hand and under the upper hands, black painted paragraph terminations. Crudely carved Roman letters. The left hand side inscribed : HELSTON with hand pointing to right, PENZANCE BREAGE with hand pointing to left. The right hand side inscribed SITHNEY with hand pointing right and PENROSE with with hand pointing to the left. Ordnance survey bench mark at lower right.

Listing NGR: SW6398328232

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Legacy System number:: 65926
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.