Milestone 150M SW of Clerkenwater House
MILESTONE 150M SW OF CLERKENWATER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394415
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone 150M SW of Clerkenwater House
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE 150M SW OF CLERKENWATER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394415
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone 150M SW of Clerkenwater House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE 150M SW OF CLERKENWATER HOUSE
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 150M SW OF CLERKENWATER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helland
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 07019 68674
Reasons for Designation
The milestone 150m south-west of Clerkenwater House is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* An intact milestone dating from the C18, which remains in its original position.
* Group value with the other listed milestones along the turnpike route.
* It testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts.
* This is an unusual turnpike milestone in that it is located on a secondary rural road.
Details
HELLAND
1557/0/10009 Milestone 150m SW of Clerkenwater House 01-OCT-10
GV II A milestone, dating from c1769, of stone (probably granite), now painted. The milestone is rectangular with a cambered head, and stands approximately 0.5m high. The milestone is inscribed with capital letters:B/1; the lettering is picked out in black paint. There is a metal pin in the top of the stone next to an inscribed benchmark.
HISTORY The milestone stands on the former turnpike road between Bodmin and Helland Bridge. The 1769 Act of Parliament that set up the Bodmin Turnpike Trust (9 Geo III, c.59 (local and personal)) required milestones and direction posts to be erected along the road, operated by the Trust: this one stood on the road from Bodmin to Helland Bridge. Annual income from the Trusts toll gates were recorded (PHIL/A/28 Royal Institution of Cornwall, Courtney Library) and show that while most gates returned hundreds of pounds each during the early C19, Clerkenwater Gate on the Hellandbridge Road yielded between twenty and thirty pounds annually. Despite this, the road continued to be part of the Trusts portfolio. This milestone is the last of only three that were erected along this three mile stretch of rural road.
The milestone is of a standard shape commonly employed by the Bodmin Turnpike Trust at that time, and is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1880.
SOURCES Information from the Milestone Society (2007)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The milestone 150m south-west of Clerkenwater House is recommended for listing at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * An intact milestone dating from the c1769, which remains in its original position. * Group value with the other listed milestones along the turnpike route. * It testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts. * This is an unusual turnpike milestone in that it is located on a secondary rural road.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 507024
- 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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