Milestone Opposite Coomb Grove Farmhouse
MILESTONE OPPOSITE COOMB GROVE FARMHOUSE, ERMINE WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330880
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Opposite Coomb Grove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE OPPOSITE COOMB GROVE FARMHOUSE, ERMINE WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330880
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Opposite Coomb Grove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE OPPOSITE COOMB GROVE FARMHOUSE, ERMINE WAY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE OPPOSITE COOMB GROVE FARMHOUSE, ERMINE WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arrington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3200652886
Details
1630/5/517
03-SEP-86
ARRINGTON
ERMINE WAY
(West side)
MILESTONE OPPOSITE COOMB GROVE FARMHOUSE
II
A milestone dating from the late C18 to early C19.
MATERIALS: Limestone
EXTERIOR: This milestone has a bull nosed stop and chamfered corners. The road side face is inscribed `A/LONDON/46/ROYSTON/8/CAXTON/4'. It is painted white and the inscription black.
INTERIOR: Not applicable.
HISTORY: This milestone dates from the late C18 to early C19 and is one of a series of milestones erected on the Old North Road.
SOURCES:
hhtp://www.milestone-society.co.uk
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridge, Volume One, West Cambridgeshire, 1968.
REASONS FOF DESIGNATION: This milestone is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is a legible example of a pre-1840 milestone in its original location;
* It is a testament to the development of our road network and a reminder of the different perceptions of distance in a pre-motorised age.
Listing NGR: TL3200652886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52681
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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