Milestone approximately 25m south of the Rod Moor Road and Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield

East side of Rod Moor Road (B6054), Approximately 25m south of Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield, S18 8XL

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A late-C18 or early-C19 milestone in the Calver twin-panel design. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1475253
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-2021
List Entry Name:: Milestone approximately 25m south of the Rod Moor Road and Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield
Statutory Address:: East side of Rod Moor Road (B6054), Approximately 25m south of Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield, S18 8XL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1475253
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-2021
List Entry Name:: Milestone approximately 25m south of the Rod Moor Road and Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield
Statutory Address 1:: East side of Rod Moor Road (B6054), Approximately 25m south of Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield, S18 8XL

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:: East side of Rod Moor Road (B6054), Approximately 25m south of Barnes Lane junction, Dronfield, S18 8XL

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Dronfield
National Grid Reference:: SK3289079606

Summary

A late-C18 or early-C19 milestone in the Calver twin-panel design.

Reasons for Designation

The milestone approximately 25m south of the junction of Rod Moor Road and Barnes Lane in Dronfield is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* the distinctive ‘Calver twin panel’ design, while simply executed, survives well and is specific to its locality, illustrating the regional variation of milestones between turnpike trusts.

Historic interest:

* as an example of a late-C18 or early-C19 milestone, demonstrating the expansion and standardisation of the road network around the time of the General Turnpike Act of 1773, when the recording of mileage was made compulsory.

Group value:

* with other milestones in this series.

History

Milestones became prevalent from the mid-C18 when turnpike trusts, which levied tolls from travellers to finance road improvements, were encouraged to provide such markers on turnpike roads. The Gleadless to Calver road was originally managed by the Greenhill Moor Turnpike Trust, established in 1781, and by the Owler Bar Turnpike Trust from 1825. The milestone on Rod Moor Road is one of a series of milestones erected along this route in a design referred to as the Calver twin panel, which gives the distances to Gleadless and Calver within two, side-by-side painted arches. Several of the stones in this series survive, including two Grade II listed examples on Dronfield Road (National Heritage List for England entries 1109631 and 1109632). The Rod Moor Road milestone previously showed the distance to Gleadless as 3 miles. In 2021 the milestone was overpainted to correct the distance to 5 miles.

Details

A late-C18 or early-C19 milestone in the Calver twin-panel design.

MATERIALS: the milestone is composed of an upright flag stone with painted lettering, possibly applied over a carved inscription.

DESCRIPTION: the milestone is situated on the east side of Rod Moor Road, on a grass verge. The stone is rectangular with rounded shoulders and is set vertically into the ground. The mileages are painted onto the stone within two semi-circular panels which read: GLEADLESS/5/MILES; CALVER/ 9/MILES. The name of the destination follows the curve of each arch.

Sources

Other
Derbyshire Historic Environment Record entry: https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR11661

Legal

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