Quintrell Downs Milestone
QUINTRELL DOWNS MILESTONE, NORTH WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395367
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Quintrell Downs Milestone
- Statutory Address:
- QUINTRELL DOWNS MILESTONE, NORTH WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395367
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Quintrell Downs Milestone
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUINTRELL DOWNS MILESTONE, NORTH WAY
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:
- QUINTRELL DOWNS MILESTONE, NORTH WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Colan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 84923 60477
Reasons for Designation
The milestone on the west side of the A3098 North Way at Quintrell Downs which was erected by the Newquay Highway Board in the mid-C19, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: A legible and intact example of a mid-C19 non-turnpike milestone which remains in its original position
* Group value: It forms a good group with other designated milestones that were erected along the principal routes into the town
Details
COLAN
1555/0/10036 NORTH WAY 25-OCT-10 (West side) Quintrell Downs Milestone
GV II DESCRIPTION: Milestone. Mid-C19 for the Newquay Highway Board. Granite monolith. It is set back from the road, rectangular on plan and stands approximately 0.60m high. It has a pent head with chamfered shoulders and is painted white. Its front (north) face is inscribed in sans serif capital letters: NEWQUAY/ 3. The lettering is picked out in black.
HISTORY: The Newquay Highway Board was established under the Highways Act of 1835 and was responsible for erecting a series of milestones, all to the same design, on the three principal routes into the town. The milestone at Quintrell Downs forms part of this group and is considered to date from sometime between 1835 and 1852.
REASONS FOR DECISION: This milestone on the west side of the A3098 North Way at Quintrell Downs which was erected by the Newquay Highway Board in the mid-C19, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: A legible and intact example of a mid-C19 non-turnpike milestone which remains in its original position * Group value: It forms a good group with other designated milestones erected along the principal routes into the town
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508247
- 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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