MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME

MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME, B3284

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396423
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-2011
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME, B3284

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396423
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-2011
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME, B3284

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE CIRCA 8M FROM EAST WALL OF KENWYN NURSING HOME, B3284

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Truro
National Grid Reference:: SW8166845909

Reasons for Designation

The milestone circa 8m from the east wall of Kenwyn Nursing Home is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Intactness: It is an intact milestone dating from 1754, which remains in its original position * Group Value: it has group value with other listed milestones along this turnpike route * Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts

Details

KENWYN

1044/0/10008 B3284 25-JAN-11 Milestone circa 8m from east wall of K enwyn Nursing Home

GV II The milestone dates from circa 1754, and is of stone.

EXTERIOR: It is rectangular in plan, stands approximately 0.94m high, with a segmental-arched top, and is painted white. The stone is inscribed with the letters FROM / TRURO / 1 / MILE, which are picked out in black paint. The letters are sans serif capitals. There is an incised benchmark below the lettering on the front face.

HISTORY: From the mid-C18 century onwards, turnpike trusts were encouraged to provide markers such as milestones and mileposts on the stretches of roads they operated. The Truro Turnpike Trust, the first in Cornwall, was established by Act of Parliament in 1754 and this milestone stands on the former turnpike road between Truro and Shortlanesend (now the B3284), one of the six routes specifically mentioned in the 1754 Act. The milestone is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1880. The Truro Turnpike Minute Book in 1825 records that milestones on this route should be recut and repainted, indicating that this was part of their regular maintenance. The current lettering may therefore date from the early C19.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The milestone circa 8m from the east wall of Kenwyn Nursing Home is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Intactness: It is an intact milestone dating from 1754, which remains in its original position * Group Value: it has group value with other listed milestones along this turnpike route * Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 508974
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.