Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430182
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1430182
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone
- Location Description:
- Sited on the eastern verge of the A19, approximately 120m north of the junction with Roall Lane, North Yorkshire.
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:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kellington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE5726424834
Summary
One of a series of inscribed milestones erected for the Doncaster and Selby Turnpike Trust which was created in 1832.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone approximately 120m north of Roall Lane is listed at grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as a relatively rare example of early C19 street furniture;
* Group value: with at least five other contemporary milestones along the route of the Doncaster and Selby turnpike road.
History
The Doncaster and Selby Turnpike Trust was established by a statute enacted on 6th June 1832 and is thought to have been responsible for erecting a series of very similar milestones along the route, of which five are already listed grade II: NHLE 1365809 at SE6017630662; NHLE 1296820 at SE5974029125; NHLE 1151476 at SE5608610013; NHLE 1151491 at SE5591408398 and NHLE 1191834 at SE5645606909.
The milestone is now located approximately 160m south along the road from its position as marked on early Ordnance Survey maps.
Details
Milestone, 1832, for the Doncaster and Selby Turnpike.
Magnesian limestone pillar of rectangular section with a gabled head. Inscribed on the side facing the road with “DONCASTER / 14 MILES / ASKERN 7 / SELBY 5 / YORK 20”, this still being discernible despite heavy weathering. The rear face is blank, the flanking sides each have a sunken panel as if to receive a metal plate, but with no evidence of fixing holes.
The recommended extent of the designation has been considered with reference to the powers provided by the Planning Act (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) 1990 under section 1 (5A), in this case invoking the powers under the Act to make it plain that the milestone has no listed curtilage.
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 is 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.
Map
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