MILESTONE AT PAYNTERS CROSS

MILESTONE AT PAYNTERS CROSS, OLD A388

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392533
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT PAYNTERS CROSS
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE AT PAYNTERS CROSS, OLD A388

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392533
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE AT PAYNTERS CROSS
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE AT PAYNTERS CROSS, OLD A388

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 AT PAYNTERS CROSS, OLD A388

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pillaton
National Grid Reference:: SX3996864208

Reasons for Designation

Milestones are of special interest as one of the few physical remains of national and local historic road use. They reflect the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes. This is one of a number of late C18 granite milestones erected by the Callington Turnpike Trust. The stone remains intact and in its original location. It also has group value with other listed mileposts on this route, as well as an adjacent group of C18 and C19 cottages, and has therefore been included on the list.

Details

PILLATON

1623/0/10009 OLD A388 10-APR-08 Milestone at Paynter's Cross

II Granite milestone of c.1764, rectangular ashlar post with rounded head. The incised lettering with serifs gives the distance to Callington: 4 1/2 C There is a small benchmark pin on the top of the stone.

HISTORY: The milestone is one of a series erected by the Callington Turnpike Trust which was established by an Act of Parliament in 1764. Eight routes were outlined in the Act, this one approaching Callington from Paynter's Cross to the south. Unusually, the distances on this route are measured in half miles, probably to enable alignment with the milestones erected by the Saltash Turnpike Trust, established in 1761.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Milestones are of special interest as one of the few physical remains of national and local historic road use. They reflect the standardisation of roads and the introduction of turnpikes. This is one of a number of late C18 granite milestones erected by the Callington Turnpike Trust. The stone remains intact and in its original location. It also has group value with other listed mileposts on this route, as well as an adjacent group of C18 and C19 cottages, and should therefore be included on the list. SX3996864208

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 503276
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.