Milestone Circa 25M South of Driveway to Calerick Farm
MILESTONE CIRCA 25M SOUTH OF DRIVEWAY TO CALERICK FARM, A39
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396479
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Circa 25M South of Driveway to Calerick Farm
- Statutory Address:
- MILESTONE CIRCA 25M SOUTH OF DRIVEWAY TO CALERICK FARM, A39
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396479
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone Circa 25M South of Driveway to Calerick Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILESTONE CIRCA 25M SOUTH OF DRIVEWAY TO CALERICK FARM, A39
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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 CIRCA 25M SOUTH OF DRIVEWAY TO CALERICK FARM, A39
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Clement
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8332547773
Reasons for Designation
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Details
ST CLEMENT
1146/0/10013 A39 14-FEB-11 Milestone circa 25m south of Driveway to Calerick Farm
II DESCRIPTION: milestone, erected in 1754 with the lettering re-cut c.1825. The stone is of the tombstone design, being rectangular in plan with a semi-circular rounded head and one dressed face. It stands 0.6m high by 0.4m wide by 0.3m deep and is inscribed FROM / TRURO / 2 / MILES on the west face; an Ordnance Survey benchmark has been carved at the bottom. The stone is painted white with lettering of sans serif capitals picked out in black paint.
HISTORY: The Truro Turnpike Trust was established by Act of Parliament in 1754 as a town-centred trust to turnpike the four main highways radiating from Truro. One such turnpike was the road to Mitchell via Calerick and Trispen, an existing road that had been amended and widened for the purposes of the Act. The Trust erected a series of milestones along this route that were rectangular in plan with semi-circular rounded heads and one dressed face; as such, they are commonly referred to as being of a 'tombstone' design. In 1825 the Trust ordered the re-cutting of a number of milestones where the lettering had worn away. This stone was subsequently re-cut with the original lettering replaced with a sans serif design that was common to that used on milestones erected by the Trust in the mid-C19.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The milestone standing on the west side of the A39, circa 25m to the south of the driveway to Calerick Farm, St Clement, 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 the other surviving milestones along the road between Truro and Mitchell * Historical Association: it is a testament to the development of the turnpike system in Cornwall, particularly to facilitate transportation within a growing industrial landscape
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 508978
- 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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