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
23319
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/05/2000
Date of Amendment
25/05/2000
Name of Property
Milepost
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pennal
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Pennal
Easting
267994
Northing
299282
Street Side
Location
The milespost stands in the S verge of the main road, on the hilltop nearly opposite Tan-y-graig.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
The milepost was probably erected in the first decades of the C19, on the main road from Machynlleth to Twywn and the coast.
Exterior
A cast iron distance marker of triangular form, open at the back, the sides sloping back at the top to a gabled top plate with raised lettering in a bold Roman typeface set in a curve, reading ABERDOVEY 5. On the left, similar raised lettering reading TOWYN, also set in a curve and within the arc, 9, and on the right, MACHYNLLETH / 5.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly elegantly lettered mile marker with lettering typical of the early C19.
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