Milestone at Connor Downs
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409024
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at Connor Downs
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409024
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at Connor Downs
- Location Description:
- Milestone at Connor Downs on the south side of Turnpike Road, towards the back of the verge behind the pavement. It is circa 56 metres west of “The Turnpike Inn” and opposite Chough’s Cottage. SW5926139202, Gwinear-Gwithian, Cornwall
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gwinear-Gwithian
- National Grid Reference:
- SW5926239200
Summary
A milestone, dating from circa 1839.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone at Connor Downs is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: it is an intact milestone dating from 1839, which remains in its original position;
* Group value: it has group value with the other listed milestones along this former turnpike route;
* Historic interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 and C19 road improvement, undertaken by Turnpike Trusts.
History
The old road from Camborne to Hayle crossed a series of high ridges and deep valleys, via Merry Meeting, Angarrack and High Lanes, the route partly dictated by the necessity of crossing the River Hayle. In 1825, the new Hayle Causeway was opened, providing a safer and easier crossing; however, it took some time before the roads to the causeway were upgraded: an Act passed on 14 May 1839 and toll gates were advertised for letting the following year. The turnpike trust built a road on a completely new alignment from Foundry Square in Hayle to the eastern end of Connor Downs, a settlement which only exists thanks to the new road. This milestone is situated on Turnpike Road, close to the Turnpike Inn, and was installed circa 1839. It is marked in its present location on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map published in 1880.
Details
A milestone, dating from circa 1839. It is triangular in plan and set on a rectangular base, with broach stops to the corners. The milestone stands approximately 0.83m high, and is painted white. The stone is inscribed to the left face with the letters HAYLE / 2 MILES / PENZANCE / 10 / LANDS END / 20, and to the right face CAMBORNE / 4 MILES / REDRUTH / 7 / TRURO / 16 which are picked out in black paint. The base of the stone is painted black.
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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