Boundary Marker Opposite Macauley Buildings
BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, WIDCOMBE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395760
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Marker Opposite Macauley Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, WIDCOMBE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395760
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Marker Opposite Macauley Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, WIDCOMBE HILL
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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:
- BOUNDARY MARKER OPPOSITE MACAULEY BUILDINGS, WIDCOMBE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76472 63889
Details
WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/57/1903 (North side) Boundary marker opposite Macauley Buildings
II
Boundary marker. Dated 1827, but date hidden. Cast iron. Canted shaft with hipped top, base partly concealed by later paving, with raised painted inscriptions, to left WIDCOMBE, to right erased, but probably should be Claverton. Running vertically on narrow front facet, BATH TURNPIKE TRUST. HISTORY: one of a series of parish boundary markers erected in 1827 by the Bath Turnpike Trust during the period that John Loudon McAdam was engineer to the trust (1826-1836). Widecombe Hill was an important road link, connecting the city with Bradford and Trowbridge: it s marked as such on Harcourt Masters¿s 1793 map of Bath. SOURCES: Bath Archaeological Trust/RCHM England, Georgian Bath Historical Map (1989); Civil Engineering Heritage, Sievewright WJ: Wales and Western England (1986); 20 AVON.
Listing NGR: ST7647963892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511171
- 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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