Direction Post at South East Corner of Stone Crossroads
DIRECTION POST AT SOUTH EAST CORNER OF STONE CROSSROADS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355081
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Direction Post at South East Corner of Stone Crossroads
- Statutory Address:
- DIRECTION POST AT SOUTH EAST CORNER OF STONE CROSSROADS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355081
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Direction Post at South East Corner of Stone Crossroads
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIRECTION POST AT SOUTH EAST CORNER OF STONE CROSSROADS
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:
- DIRECTION POST AT SOUTH EAST CORNER OF STONE CROSSROADS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 71950 74554
Details
BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR SX77 SW 6/41 Direction post at south-east - corner of Stone crossroads
- II
Direction post. Dated 1790. Granite. Roughly shaped stone of oblong section embedded on top of a grass covered embankment by the roadside. Carved inscriptions on each of the broad faces to north-east and south-west, the north-east face bearing the date 1790. Beneath this the inscription is difficult to read, but is possibly NEWTON; the inscription on south-west side may be ASHBURTON. On the north-west edge is carved the letter W, perhaps referring to the adjacent parish of Widecombe. The south-east edge is concealed by the embankment. This is an unusually early type of direction post and one of the few to carry a date. It was re-erected in 1963, having been "formerly built into opposite wall". Source: Sites and Monuments Register, County Hall, Exeter.
Listing NGR: SX7195074554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85242
- 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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