MILESTONE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE

MILESTONE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE, B3275

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396425
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-2011
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE, B3275

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396425
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-2011
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE, B3275

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 IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF COTTAGE WALL AT TOP OF TRESOWGAR LANE, B3275

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Probus
National Grid Reference:: SW8861547985

Reasons for Designation

The milestone immediately in front of cottage wall at top of Tresowgar Lane is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Intactness: it is a good example of an early C19 milestone * Historic interest: it illustrates the development of the road network in Cornwall and further afield * Group value: it has strong group value with the other ten surviving milestones along the road between Truro and Fraddon

Details

PROBUS

1146/0/10018 B3275 25-JAN-11 Milestone immediately in front of cott age wall at top of Tresowgar Lane

GV II A granite guidestone dating from 1830, standing in front of a cottage wall on the pavement, on the east side of the road.

EXTERIOR: The stone is triangular in plan with a flat top and chamfered edges. It stands at 0.85m high and is 0.55m wide. There are cast iron plates on either front, road-facing side, set flush with the dressed stone. The left is inscribed `TRURO 5 FALMOUTH 15 ½, the right `BODMIN 19 ¼ LONDON 245. The type faces of the two plates are different. The stone and the plates are painted white, with the lettering in black. There is a benchmark carved into the left face beneath the plate.

HISTORY: In 1754, the first Cornish turnpike was established. The next 10 years saw the establishment of several new Turnpike Trusts in the county, resulting in the construction of new roads and erection of milestones. Under the renewal of the General Turnpike Act in 1828 new roads were commissioned in Cornwall, in order to provide a 'modern' passage from Falmouth to London, with good gradients and surfaces for horse-drawn traffic. The milestone that is the subject of this assessment is one of a series of twelve, eleven of which are extant, beginning in Truro and heading north-east to Fraddon.

In 1835 a new route was constructed which avoided a steep hill, and hence nullified some of the distances on the stones. There are uniform discrepancies in distance on this, and the other milestones in the series, on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map in 1880. The second edition of 1907 shows the correct distances, suggesting the milestones were given new mileage plates sometime between these dates, probably in 1889 when the County Council took on the maintenance of the road.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The milestone immediately in front of cottage wall at top of Tresowgar Lane is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Intactness: it is a good example of an early C19 milestone * Historic interest: it illustrates the development of the road network in Cornwall and further afield * Group value: it has strong group value with the other ten surviving milestones along the road between Truro and Fraddon

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 508984
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.