MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900)

MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900), B3254

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392363
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900)
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900), B3254

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392363
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900)
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900), B3254

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT HIGHER ROSCRADDOC (NGR SX2753367900), B3254

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Cleer
National Grid Reference:: SX2753367900

Reasons for Designation

REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The milestone is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It survives intact in its original location. * It has good group value with a number of other listed mileposts marking this route from Liskeard to Launceston. * It reflects the development of historic road use.

Details

1554/0/10011 18-JAN-08

ST CLEER B3254 Milestone at Higher Roscraddoc (NGR SX2753367900)

GV II

A Late-C19 guide post of local stone; roughly rectangular with a flat domed head. It measures approximately 1m high and 0.50m across. One face is deeply incised with capital letters 8cm high. The inscription reads: LISKEARD/3

HISTORY: The milepost was erected circa 1880. It is one of a series marking the route from Liskeard to Launceston. It appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1888. SOURCES C. Haines, Marking The Miles, A History of English Milestones (2000) p 25

REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The guidepost is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It survives intact in its original location. * It has good group value with a number of other listed guide posts marking the route from Liskeard to Launceston. * It reflects the early development of historic road use.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 503493
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.