Milestone in boundary wall

31 West Coker Road, Yeovil, Yeovil, BA20 2LY

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Milestone. Probably C18. It is set within a C20 boundary wall which is excluded from the listing. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1417784
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-2014
List Entry Name:: Milestone in boundary wall
Statutory Address:: 31 West Coker Road, Yeovil, Yeovil, BA20 2LY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1417784
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-2014
List Entry Name:: Milestone in boundary wall
Statutory Address 1:: 31 West Coker Road, Yeovil, Yeovil, BA20 2LY

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 31 West Coker Road, Yeovil, Yeovil, BA20 2LY

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Yeovil
National Grid Reference:: ST5468414780

Summary

Milestone. Probably C18. It is set within a C20 boundary wall which is excluded from the listing.

Reasons for Designation

The milestone within the boundary wall of 31 West Coker Road, Yeovil, probably of C18 date, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Intactness: as an intact milestone which remains in its original position; * Historic Interest: it testifies to the great wave of C18 road improvement; * Group value: it is part of a well-defined turnpike route between Crewkerne and Yeovil and forms a group with six other surviving milestones on this road.

History

The first Act of Parliament to establish a turnpike trust in Somerset was in 1707-08 for roads around Bath. Bristol came next in 1731, and during the second half of the century nearly all the towns of Somerset established their trusts by Act of Parliament. The main post road through Yeovil was included in the 1753 Act, turnpiking the road from Lower Compton, to the east of Sherborne, through Chard to Axminster. The Yeovil Turnpike Trust maintained the road between Crewkerne and Yeovil between 1753 and 1849.

The milestone within the boundary wall to 31 West Coker Road is marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1887 as 'Crewkerne 8, Yeovil 1'. It is one of a set of eight milestones, of which seven are known to survive, which were erected along the principal route (A30) between Crewkerne and Yeovil, possibly in the C18.

Details

Milestone. Probably C18, set within a C20 boundary wall.

MATERIALS: Hamstone with cast-iron plate.

DESCRIPTION: stone upright incorporated into a C20 boundary wall on the south side of West Coker Road. It has a shouldered triangular top; the point is rounded. The north face has an cast-iron plate with a shouldered, curved top and is inscribed: 'I / YEOVIL'.

Pursuant to s. 1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 ('the Act') it is declared that the C20 boundary wall is not of special architectural or historic interest.

Sources

Websites
Turnpikes, accessed from http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASH/Turnpikes.htm
Yeovil Turnpike Trust, accessed from http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/Somerset%20-%20Yeovil.htm

Legal

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

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.