Milestone at Three Mile Cross
MILESTONE AT THREE MILE CROSS, BASINGSTOKE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393098
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at Three Mile Cross
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE AT THREE MILE CROSS, BASINGSTOKE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393098
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at Three Mile Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE AT THREE MILE CROSS, BASINGSTOKE 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:
- MILESTONE AT THREE MILE CROSS, BASINGSTOKE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shinfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 71471 68227
Reasons for Designation
An early C19 milestone at Three Mile Cross is designated for the following principal reasons: * A legible example of an early C19 milestone, showing the expansion of the road network and the impact of the 1773 General Turnpike Act, which made the recording of mileage compulsory. * A stone which has group value with other listed milestones on the same road and of the same broad form.
Details
SHINFIELD
1921/0/10028 BASINGSTOKE ROAD 14-JAN-09 THREE MILE CROSS (East side) Milestone at Three Mile Cross
GV II Milestone, early C19.
DESCRIPTION: Stone semi-circular column with a chamfered top located on the east side of the Old Basingstoke Road at its junction with Woodcock Lane. The column is painted white with black lettering. The inscription reads: on the top 'SOUTHAMPTON 43'; and on the side 'BASINGSTOKE 13 READING 3'. The word 'Southampton', while just discernible, is less apparent than the remainder of the inscription due to weathering and lichen growth, however the inscription on the side of the stone is deeply incised.
HISTORY: The milestone is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1872. It is contemporary with other listed milestones to the south on the Reading-Basingstoke road. Comparison between the 1872 and the modern map suggests that the stone has been relocated from a position slightly to the south of where it presently stands but that it has always been located to the east of the Old Basingstoke Road at this road junction. The combination of the place name 'Three Mile Cross', presumed to indicate a crossroads three miles from Reading, and the milestone expressing this distance, adds further interest. In recent years the stone was apparently repainted with the mileage to Southampton incorrectly interpreted as '48', but at the time of listing the paint has worn away to reveal '43' again.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: This early C19 milestone at Three Mile Cross is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * A legible example of an early C19 milestone, showing the expansion of the road network and the impact of the 1773 General Turnpike Act, which made the recording of mileage compulsory. * A stone which has group value with other listed milestones on the same road and of the same form. SU7147168227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504504
- 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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