Milestone Approx 186M South of Telephone Exchange
MILESTONE APPROX 186M SOUTH OF TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, A390
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396162
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Approx 186M South of Telephone Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE APPROX 186M SOUTH OF TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, A390
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396162
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Approx 186M South of Telephone Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE APPROX 186M SOUTH OF TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, A390
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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:
- MILESTONE APPROX 186M SOUTH OF TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, A390
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Probus
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9164448612
Reasons for Designation
The milestone approx 186m south of Telephone Exchange on the A390 at Probus is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: milestone dating from 1754, which remains intact.
* Historic interest: it was, unusually, moved to its current location in 1828 when the turnpike road was re-routed
* Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts
* Group value: with the other three similar stones on the re-routed section of the Truro to Grampound road
Details
PROBUS
1146/0/10012 A390 11-NOV-10 (North side) Milestone approx 186m south of Telepho ne Exchange
GV II DESCRIPTION: The milestone dates from 1754; it was moved to its present location in 1828. The milestone is stone, painted white. It is rectangular in plan, and stands approximately 0.65m high, with a cambered head. It is inscribed with the letters FROM / TRURO / 7 / MILES, which are picked out in black paint; the 's' in 'miles' falls away from the line of the text. There is a benchmark and a pin on the top of the milestone.
HISTORY: From the mid-C18 onwards, turnpike trusts were encouraged to provide markers such as milestones and mileposts on the stretches of roads they operated. The Truro Turnpike Trust was established by Act of Parliament in 1754, the first Turnpike Trust in Cornwall, and this milestone stands on the former turnpike road from Truro to Probus and Grampound; it dates from 1754. In 1828, a new road was planned, taking a less steep route out of Truro and up the Ladock valley to Penhale near Fraddon, where it would link with the Bodmin Trust's road and thence to London. This new road had distinctive triangular milestones with cast-iron plates, replacing the earlier style demonstrated by the example under consideration. When in 1828 the line of the road was moved to ease the gradient out of Grampound, rather than erecting milestones in the new design, the four milestones on this stretch were moved from the line of the original road to their equivalent locations on the new road; the four stones in this run all survive in their 1828 locations. The milestone is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1880.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The milestone approx 186m south of Telephone Exchange on the A390 at Probus is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Intactness: milestone dating from 1754, which remains intact. * Historic interest: it was, unusually, moved to its current location in 1828 when the turnpike road was re-routed * Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts * Group value: with the other three similar stones on the re-routed section of the Truro to Grampound road
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508362
- 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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