MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA

MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA, MOORLAND ROAD

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Overview

A milestone, erected in 1769, or shortly afterwards. The stone is granite, carved from surface moorstone, and is a roughly-hewn monolith with a rounded head, standing about 50cm high. The incised lettering, in sans serif capitals, reads 'B 11' (indicating the distance from Bodmin). The milestone is painted white, with the inscription picked out in black. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393904
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-2010
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA, MOORLAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393904
Date first listed:: 03-Aug-2010
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA, MOORLAND ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE ADJACENT TO SERENA, MOORLAND ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Enoder
National Grid Reference:: SW9253159581

Reasons for Designation

The milestone adjacent to the property known as Serena, Moorland Road, Indian Queens, which was erected by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:

* Historic interest: dating from 1769, or shortly afterwards, the milestone is good example of an early milestone on an historic turnpike road * Intactness: the stone is in its original location, and is intact

Details

ST ENODER

1555/0/10028 MOORLAND ROAD 03-AUG-10 Indian Queens (Northwest side) Milestone adjacent to Serena

GV II A milestone, erected in 1769, or shortly afterwards. The stone is granite, carved from surface moorstone, and is a roughly-hewn monolith with a rounded head, standing about 50cm high. The incised lettering, in sans serif capitals, reads 'B 11' (indicating the distance from Bodmin). The milestone is painted white, with the inscription picked out in black.

HISTORY The Bodmin Turnpike Trust was established by Act of Parliament in 1769 'for repairing and widening roads around Bodmin'. The first road mentioned in the Act was to become part of the A30 trunk road (now unclassified), running south from Bodmin through the 'parishes of Lenevet, Luxulian, Roache, St Colomb Major as far as Higher Fraddon at the W. End of Fair Mile Common in the parish of St Enoder'. Twelve milestones were originally erected marking distances from Bodmin along the route; of these, the only two to survive are the next one to the east - marked 'B 10' (qv) - and the milestone under consideration, which is marked 'B 11', and lies to the east of Indian Queens.

The opening of the A30 Indian Queens bypass in the 1990s resulted in traffic being diverted away from the milestone.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The milestone adjacent to the property known as Serena, Moorland Road, Indian Queens, which was erected by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: dating from 1769, or shortly afterwards, the milestone is a good example of an early milestone on an historic turnpike road * Intactness: the stone is in its original location, and is intact.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 507729
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.