MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM

MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396488
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM
Statutory Address:: MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396488
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM
Statutory Address 1:: MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MILESTONE C. 300M NORTH OF SUNNY CORNER FARM, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stithians
National Grid Reference:: SW 75204 38489

Details

STITHIANS

1533/0/10030 UNCLASSIFIED ROAD 14-FEB-11 (South side) Milestone c. 300m North of Sunny Corne r Farm

II A milestone of 1756.

DESCRIPTION The milestone is located at the road edge, set in a stone wall. It is constructed of granite, and rectangular on plan, with a rounded top. It stands approximately 122 centimetres high, and is inscribed with the letters FROM TRURO 7 MILES which are picked out in black paint. The carved inscription has been damaged. The milestone is painted white.

HISTORY Historically roads were maintained by the parishes they passed through. Sometimes this proved beyond them, and in 1663 the first turnpike trust (a pike - a billhook-like weapon - was sometime used to bar access down a road; turning it allowed access), was established, empowered to levy tolls towards the upkeep a particular stretch of road. Initially there were few such trusts, but in the early-C18 their number rose steeply; by 1750 most major roads had been turnpiked, and over the rest of the century and into the early C19 over 1000 turnpike trusts were established in all, the last in 1836. Milestones (along with toll houses, and rebuilt bridges and re-engineered sections of the roads themselves) are physical evidence of these trusts' activities.

From the mid-C18 onwards, turnpike trusts were encouraged to provide markers such as milestones and mileposts on the stretches of roads they operated. In 1754, the first Cornish turnpike was established, the Truro Turnpike Trust. A number of other trusts were set up over the next ten years, and new roads were constructed, and milestones erected. This milestone is one of four on a route created by the Truro Trust between Perranwell and Tretheague Bridge in 1756. It is shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map of c.1880 in its current location.

Reasons for Designation: The milestone circa 300 metres north of Sunny Corner Farm, Stithians, Kerrier is designated in Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * Intactness: it is a good example of a mid-C18 milestone. * Historic interest: it illustrates the development of the transport network in Cornwall and further afield. * Group value: it has strong group value with the other three surviving milestones along the road south-west of Truro.

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Legacy System number:: 509239
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.