MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679

MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679, A303

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346120
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679, A303

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Date:: 2003-10-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346120
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679, A303

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ON A303 AT NGR ST 6605 2679, A303

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Compton Pauncefoot
National Grid Reference:: ST 66049 26790

Details

COMPTON PAUNCEFOOT CP ST62NE 5/33 Milestone on A303 at NGR ST 6605 - 2679

II Milestone. Probably early C19. Doulting stone pillar with cast iron plaque. Stone about 400 mm x 50 mm thick x 1.2 metres high, roughly rounded top: cast iron plaque 375 mm wide x 430 mm high, with shouldered semi-circular top and double ogee base, reading "Wincanton (on curve)/4/Ilchester/9". This road turnpiked in 1756 and maintained by the Wincanton Trust.

Listing NGR: ST6604926790

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

Legacy System number:: 263345
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.