MILESTONE 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE

MILESTONE 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, ROMAN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392080
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, ROMAN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392080
Date first listed:: 18-Jun-2007
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, ROMAN ROAD

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 27 METRES SOUTH SOUTH WEST OF THE SPREAD EAGLE PUBLIC HOUSE, ROMAN ROAD

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

County:: Essex
District:: Chelmsford (District Authority)
Parish:: Margaretting
National Grid Reference:: TL6732301860

Details

719/0/10093 18-JUN-07

MARGARETTING ROMAN ROAD Milestone 27m SSW of The Spread Eagle Public House

II

Milestone and cover plate. C18 and C19. Limestone and cast iron. One vertical surface of the cast iron cover plate is embossed with 'Chelmsford 4' and the other with 'Ingatstone 2'. A sloping surface above is embossed with 'To London 25 Margareting'.

HISTORY: This is one in a series of milestones erected in the C18 by the Essex Turnpike Trust to mark the distances along the 'Great Essex Road', which ran from London to Harwich. The design of the cover plate, which was added later, was initiated by James McAdam and adopted by the Trust in 1819 to reduce the frequent cost of re-cutting the inscriptions in the stones.

SOURCES: www.milestonesonline.co.uk; www.milestone-society.co.uk

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Milestones survive in large numbers as important indicators of road use and to merit listing they must survive in their original position and be largely intact. This is a good example of a milestone erected along the 'Great Essex Road'. It appears to be in its original location and retains its cast iron cover plate.

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Legacy System number:: 502735
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.