Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (NGR SS2398305435)

MILESTONE OPPOSITE BROOKS GARDEN CENTRE (NGR SS2398305435), A3072

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A late-C19 milestone standing on the south side of the A3072 opposite Brooks Garden Centre. The slate stone has straight edges, with a canted front surface containing traces of white paint. The deeply incised lettering, with some black paint remaining, reads: HOLSY 7 BUDE 2 ½ STRATTON I.
Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394317
Date first listed:
01-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (NGR SS2398305435)
Statutory Address:
MILESTONE OPPOSITE BROOKS GARDEN CENTRE (NGR SS2398305435), A3072

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394317
Date first listed:
01-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (NGR SS2398305435)
Statutory Address 1:
MILESTONE OPPOSITE BROOKS GARDEN CENTRE (NGR SS2398305435), A3072

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MILESTONE OPPOSITE BROOKS GARDEN CENTRE (NGR SS2398305435), A3072

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bude-Stratton
National Grid Reference:
SS 23983 05435

Reasons for Designation

This milestone on the A3072, opposite Brooks Garden Centre, merits listing at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Despite being a relatively late example, this late-C19 milestone is of an unusual material (slate) and design, is fully legible, and survives in its original location. * It has good group value with a number of other listed milestones of identical design marking this stretch of road. * It reflects the development of this particular stretch of historic road use and is a physical marker of the area's transport history.

Details

BUDE STRATTON

505/0/10020 A3072 01-OCT-10 Milestone opposite Brooks Garden Centr e (NGR SS2398305435)

GV II A late-C19 milestone standing on the south side of the A3072 opposite Brooks Garden Centre. The slate stone has straight edges, with a canted front surface containing traces of white paint. The deeply incised lettering, with some black paint remaining, reads: HOLSY 7 BUDE 2 ½ STRATTON I.

HISTORY The milestone is one of a series of milestones between Bude and Highampton in Devon, erected in the 1870s when the road was improved. Of the group, three stones have survived in Devon (listed at grade II), and of the Cornish ones of this stretch, three survive, of which this is one. The milestone is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1880.

SOURCE The Milestone Society (2007): http://www.milestone-society.co.uk

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION This milestone on the A3072, opposite Brooks Garden Centre, merits listing at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Despite being a relatively late example, this late-C19 milestone is of an unusual material (slate) and design, is fully legible, and survives in its original location. * It has good group value with a number of other listed milestones of identical design marking this stretch of road. * It reflects the development of this particular stretch of historic road use and is a physical marker of the area's transport history.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
503533
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.

Ordnance survey map of Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (NGR SS2398305435)

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