Milestone in Garden Wall of Menherion House
Milestone in Garden Wall of Menherion House, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1400355
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone in Garden Wall of Menherion House
- Statutory Address:
- Milestone in Garden Wall of Menherion House, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1400355
- Date first listed:
- 18-Aug-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone in Garden Wall of Menherion House
- Location Description:
- Milestone, built into the garden wall of Menherion House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Milestone in Garden Wall of Menherion House, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD
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.
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 in Garden Wall of Menherion House, UNCLASSIFIED ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wendron
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7082637121
Summary
Milestone, set into the wall of Menherion House, at Wendron, Cornwall.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone in the garden wall of Menherion House is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* DATE: as an early C19 milestone
* DESIGN: for its lettering, which is of good quality
* GROUP VALUE: as part of a non-uniform series of seven milestones, five of which are listed
History
The milestone is set into the garden wall of Menherion House on an unclassified road which branches eastwards from and rejoins the B3297 Helston to Redruth Road; the milestone is understood to predate both the house and the wall. The milestone does not appear on the Ordnance Survey map published in 1880, but is marked on the map published in 1907. There are six other milestones on this road, though these do not make a consistent set; the others are of a different design, and carry benchmarks, which this one does not. It is possible that the road was intended as a turnpike, and that milestones were set up, but that the route was in fact never turnpiked, and was not adopted as a main road by Cornwall County Council.
Details
A stone milestone, dating from the early C19, set into the later garden wall of Menherion House, on the west side of the road, to the north of Gwealeath. The front of the milestone is about 0.95m high, with a shallow arched top. The inscription, in upper-case serif letters, reads: 'REDRUTH / 3 ¼ / CARN / MENELLIS / 1 / HELSTON / 7 ½'; the lettering is picked out in black paint.
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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