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
17552
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/11/1996
Date of Amendment
05/11/1996
Name of Property
Milestone W of village
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Caersws
Town
Locality
Llanwnog
Easting
301638
Northing
293593
Street Side
S
Location
The milestone is now located in the wide grass verge, 250m from the junction of the B.4568 with the main A.490 Caersws to Machynlleth road.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The road from Newtown to Machynlleth, through Aberhafesp was included in the Second District, defined under the First Montgomeryshire Act of 1769, 'for the Repairing and Widening of ' various specified roads, and to raise tolls by means of turnpike gates. The powers were re-enacted in 1773 and at later times, and these included the power to erect stones at mile intervals. This road was superceded by the construction of the new turnpike on the S sive of the river, called the 'Long Length'.
Exterior
A triangular fronted pillar of compact sandstone, erected c.1790, bearing incised lettering, roughly overpainted in black, reading, on the left face: NEWT / 7, and on the right MACH / 21. The reversal of faces indicates the milestone has been relocated from the opposite site of the road.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the few milestones surviving from the marking out of the mile points by the Turnpike Trust.
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