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
2085
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/11/1953
Date of Amendment
19/03/2001
Name of Property
Travellers' Seat
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Skenfrith
Town
Monmouth
Locality
Newcastle
Easting
342560
Northing
218362
Street Side
Location
On the inner (NE) side of a bend in a minor road approximately 1km WNW of Newcastle.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Perhaps erected by a Turnpike Trust; dated 1780.
Exterior
A guidestone for travellers, dated 1780. Set in an upstand of a low rubble boundary wall at the roadside, it is a flat-faced slab approximately 1m high and 1¼m wide, with inscriptions which are now only partly legible. The second line reads "ERECTED 1780", and the following lines refer to Crickhowell, Brecon, Ross, Gloucester and Brecknock, with their distance in "Miles from hence".
Interior
Reason for designation
A historically interesting form of milestone.
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