Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300
Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300, Portreath, Cornwall
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409062
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300
- Statutory Address:
- Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300, Portreath, Cornwall
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1409062
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300
- Location Description:
- Milestone on the south side of the B3300 road, standing on the verge beside a low wall separating it from the forecourt of Mitchell’s Garage, Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300, Portreath, 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
- Statutory Address:
- Milestone at Bridge, on south side of the B3300, Portreath, Cornwall
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portreath
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6752344890
Summary
Granite milestone, thought to date from 1890, on the B3300 between Redruth and Portreath.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone on the B3300 at Mitchell's Garage, Bridge is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historical: the milestone is of note as part of a group of milestones marking a historic route between the mineral centre of Redruth and the port at Portreath
* Intactness: as a complete example of a late-C19 milestone in its original position, triangular in plan, with a clear inscription
* Group Value: with the other two listed milestones in this complete series
History
The town of Redruth saw significant growth during the C19 through its situation at the heart of a rich site for the mining of tin and copper, and Portreath, on the coast to the north-west, was developed as one of Cornwall's pre-eminent mineral ports. A railway was built between Carn Brea (to the south-west of Redruth) and Portreath in 1837, but there was no rail link between Redruth and Portreath. The New Portreath Road (now the B3300), leading from Redruth to Portreath, was established at some time between 1880 and 1890, offering an alternative to the Old Portreath Road, which took a more southerly route. In 1890 a number of roads were adopted by Cornwall County Council as main roads, the New Portreath Road being one of these. It was a requirement that before adoption as a main road milestones should be put in place, so the three milestones marking the four-mile distance between Redruth and Portreath may have been erected immediately before the handover. All three survive.
Details
Milestone, thought to date from 1890, forming part of a series of three marking the distance between Redruth and Portreath on the B3300.
The milestone is made of granite and is triangular on plan, with a pyramidal top. It stands on a rectangular base, with pyramid stops to the base of each face. The milestone is painted white with the inscriptions picked out in black. The inscription on the eastern face of the milestone reads 'PORTREATH / 1. MILE' and the inscription on the western face reads 'REDRUTH / 3. MILES'.
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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