MILESTONE SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29

MILESTONE SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364252
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364252
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29, HIGH STREET

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 SET IN WALL TO FRONT OF NO 29, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dilton Marsh
National Grid Reference:: ST 85302 49980

Details

DILTON MARSH HIGH STREET ST 84 NE (north side) 8/110 Milestone set in wall to front of No 29 GV II Milestone. Probably early C19. Segmental-headed limestone pillar with shaped cast-iron plate to front, raised lettering reads TO / WESTBURY / 2 MILES / BATH / 14 MILES. Road through Dilton Marsh between Westbury and the Bath Road (A36) turnpiked after 1800. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 4, 1958)

Listing NGR: ST8530249980

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Legacy System number:: 313748
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1959)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.