Milepost Outside 'kings Croft', West of Endon Village
MILEPOST OUTSIDE 'KINGS CROFT', WEST OF ENDON VILLAGE, CLAY LAKE (B5051)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392685
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost Outside 'kings Croft', West of Endon Village
- Statutory Address:
- MILEPOST OUTSIDE 'KINGS CROFT', WEST OF ENDON VILLAGE, CLAY LAKE (B5051)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392685
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost Outside 'kings Croft', West of Endon Village
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILEPOST OUTSIDE 'KINGS CROFT', WEST OF ENDON VILLAGE, CLAY LAKE (B5051)
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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:
- MILEPOST OUTSIDE 'KINGS CROFT', WEST OF ENDON VILLAGE, CLAY LAKE (B5051)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Endon and Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92129 53425
Reasons for Designation
This milepost on the B5051, to the west of Endon, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a legible, intact example of a late-C19 milepost, reflecting the expansion of the road network and the impact of the 1773 general Turnpike Act, which made recording mileage compulsory. * It is comparable to other listed cast iron mileposts on the Newcastle to Leek turnpike road.
Details
ENDON AND STANLEY
1798/0/10027 CLAY LAKE (B5051) 29-JUL-08 Milepost outside 'Kings Croft', west of Endon Village
GV II Milepost. Dated 1879 by Hales & Co. of Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent. Cast iron. A convex-shaped rectangular display set on a circular shaft which has a domed head. The display is divided down the centre and inscribed on the left side: `LEEK / 5 / MILES', and on the right: `NEWCASTLE / 6½ / MILES'.
HISTORY: The road between Newcastle-under-Lyme and Leek, which ran via Burslem, was turnpiked in 1765. A further turnpike road (now the A53), built under an Act of 1840, enters Endon from the south west and joined the former to the north east of Endon. The mileposts on the Newcastle-Leek road which dated from the early C19 were replaced in 1879 following the introduction of a countywide replacement scheme. On the First Edition Ordnance Survey map (1879) the distances given relate to the earlier milepost; those on later editions give the distances to Burslem and Leek rather than Newcastle as inscribed on the milepost itself. This is true for all the markers on this route.
SOURCES Ordnance Survey maps (1879, 1899, 1925)
REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: This milepost on the B5051, to the west of Endon, merits designation at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a legible, intact example of a late-C19 milepost, reflecting the expansion of the road network and the impact of the 1773 general Turnpike Act, which made recording mileage compulsory. * It is comparable to other listed cast iron mileposts on the Newcastle to Leek turnpike road.
SJ9212953425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 503330
- 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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