Milestone South of Longnor Market Place
MILESTONE SOUTH OF LONGNOR MARKET PLACE, B5053
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392589
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone South of Longnor Market Place
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE SOUTH OF LONGNOR MARKET PLACE, B5053
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392589
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone South of Longnor Market Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE SOUTH OF LONGNOR MARKET PLACE, B5053
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:
- MILESTONE SOUTH OF LONGNOR MARKET PLACE, B5053
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longnor
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0884164908
Reasons for Designation
* A particularly well preserved example of an early C18 stone waymarker * It stands in close proximity to a large number of listed buildings including a cross * It is similar in character to the distinctive Derbyshire guide stoops
Details
418/0/10004
30-APR-08
LONGNOR
B5053
Milestone South of Longnor Market Place
II
An early C18 stone waymarker with later ball finial. The south facing side reads BAKEWELL (with hand pointing to the right) LEEK (with hand pointing to the left). The east facing side reads BUXTON (with hand pointing to the right) ASHBURN with hand pointing to the left). The north facing side reads LEEK (with hand pointing to the right) BAKEWELL (with hand pointing to the left). The hands used to depict the respective directions are gauntlet clad.
HISTORY: This stone waymarker is believed to have been erected between 1709 and 1711 and therefore predates the later C18 expansion in the formal road network as a result of the introduction of turnpike legislation.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION
Stone waymarker south of Longnor Market Place is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* A particularly well preserved example of an early C18 stone waymarker
* It stands in close proximity to a large number of listed buildings including a cross
* It is similar in character to the distinctive Derbyshire guide stoops
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503381
- 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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