Milestone
MILESTONE, HARDINGS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393126
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE, HARDINGS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393126
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE, HARDINGS LANE
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, HARDINGS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilkley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 11231 49112
Reasons for Designation
The milestone at Hardings Lane is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * possibly of an early date, relating to 1667 JP instructions to provide milestones on Moors. * important early survivor of establishment of public road system. * the lettering and signage is still legible, quite rustic, and possessed of charm.
Details
ILKLEY
710/0/10022 HARDINGS LANE 13-FEB-09 Milestone
II Milestone, 17th-18th C, rectangular stone block c. 1 metre high, set by the roadside at a junction.
ELEVATIONS: The front face is flat with a squared top, and the sides are fairly flat but tapered to the top. The front is inscribed with the words: TO/ RIPPO/ N/ 15 M, with a crudely incised hand below with a finger pointing right. On the left side are the incised words TO/ KEIGH/ LEY/ 5 M, with a crudely incised hand above pointing left.
HISTORY: The stone is marked as GS (guide stone) on the 1891 edition OS map, and Direction Post on the 1853 edition OS map. It may date from the period in the eighteenth century when the creation of turnpikes shifted the cost of road maintenance onto the road user through Act of Parliament, or possibly earlier as one of the guide stones erected by Justices in the 1667 to guide travellers over the moors.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION The milestone at Hardings Lane is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It dates to before 1840 and probably to the eighteenth century * It is of individual design with hand carved inscriptions
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504994
- 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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