Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13407
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1980
Date of Amendment
23/07/2003
Name of Property
Milepost on north-east side of A48, opposite to Twmpath Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Colwinston
Town
Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
Locality
Colwinston
Easting
295596
Northing
176198
Street Side
Location
On north-east side of A48, opposite to Twmpath Farm and the junction to Colwinston village.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Dated 1835 and erected by the Cowbridge District Turnpike Trust
Exterior
Ornately moulded cast-iron milepost in Gothic style, one of a series on the A48 to the West of Cardiff. Rectangular panels at the base, the lower one with date '1835' and the upper one with the words 'Colwinston Parish'. Behind and above this, a tall crowning tablet with rounded head and the inscription 'Cowbridge District' at the top. Two pointed panels protrude from the lower part of this tablet, the left hand one inscribed 'To Cowbridge 3' and the right hand one inscribed 'To Bridgend 4'. A segmental panel inscribed 'London 173' below these and above rectangular panels at base. See similar listed mileposts in City of Cardiff, namely, in Cowbridge Road East and West and in the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly elaborate turnpike milepost which is one of a series on the A48.
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