Milestone alongside B4073 at SO8663011731
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1447094
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone alongside B4073 at SO8663011731
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1447094
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-2017
- List Entry Name:
- Milestone alongside B4073 at SO8663011731
- Location Description:
- On the east side of the B4073 at SO8663011731.
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.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8663111732
Summary
A milestone dating from about 1726.
Reasons for Designation
The milestone alongside the B4073 at SO8663011731 near Painswick is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: an intact and early milestone dating from about 1726, which remains in its original position;
* Group value: with the other milestones along the Painswick to Gloucester turnpike route.
History
Milestones are one of the most widespread forms of street furniture. They became prevalent in the mid-C18, when turnpike trusts were encouraged to provide such markers, though until the General Turnpike Act of 1773 it was not obligatory for them to include mileage. The six-mile road between Gloucester and Painswick was turnpiked in 1726, and the milestones along this road may date from this period, as the inscriptions include a long ‘s’ in Gloucester, indicating a date in the C18. Of the original seven milestones in this run, that at the Gloucester end had been lost by the late C19, as the area was subject to redevelopment and suburban expansion, and is not shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map published in 1886. The remaining six stones are all shown on the 1886 map, and of these, the stones at three, five and six miles from Gloucester remain in-situ in 2017. A fourth stone, at four miles from Gloucester, is in-situ but has been truncated, and has lost its upper half, including its plates.
Details
A milestone dating from about 1726.
MATERIALS
Local limestone, with iron plates.
DESCRIPTION
The milestone stands approximately 1m high, and is square in section. The top is pyramidal, but weathered. The roadside face carries two iron plates, one above the other. They are painted white, with the lettering picked out in black paint. The smaller, upper plate is inscribed: V, and the lower plate: Miles to / Glocefter.
Sources
Books and journals
Haine, C, Main Roads through Painswick in Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology Journal, (1987), 42-9
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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