Milepost Opposite Willow Lodge School
MILEPOST OPPOSITE WILLOW LODGE SCHOOL, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392932
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost Opposite Willow Lodge School
- Statutory Address:
- MILEPOST OPPOSITE WILLOW LODGE SCHOOL, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392932
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Milepost Opposite Willow Lodge School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILEPOST OPPOSITE WILLOW LODGE SCHOOL, DORCHESTER ROAD
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:
- MILEPOST OPPOSITE WILLOW LODGE SCHOOL, DORCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lytchett Minster and Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96120 93102
Reasons for Designation
The milepost opposite Willow Lodge School has been listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Although it was relocated during work to the Dorchester Road in the early C20, the distances displayed remain valid, and it survives intact. * It is one of group surviving on this route, some of which are already listed.
Details
LYTCHETT MINSTER AND UPTON
235/0/10017 DORCHESTER ROAD 13-OCT-08 Milepost opposite Willow Lodge School
II Cast iron milepost of mid-C19, triangular in section with sloping top. Painted white with lettering picked out in black. The cast relief lettering, in capitals, reads as follows: east face: 4/WARE/HAM; top: POOLE/TRUST; west face: 4/POOLE.
HISTORY: The milepost is one of a series erected by the Poole Turnpike Trust which was established by an Act of Parliament in 1757 although this marker dates from the C19. It was moved several metres to the east c.1905 when the Dorchester Road was diverted.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: The milepost opposite Willow Lodge School is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Although it was relocated during work to the Dorchester Road in the early C20, the distances displayed remain valid, and it survives intact. * It is one of group surviving on this route, some of which are already listed.
SY9612093102
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505370
- 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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