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Reference Number
81332
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/07/2003
Date of Amendment
23/07/2003
Name of Property
Milepost by Crack Hill House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Colwinston
Town
Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
Locality
Colwinston
Easting
294090
Northing
176771
Street Side
Location
On the north side of the road about half way up Crack Hill.
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 4' and the right hand one inscribed 'To Bridgend 3'. A segmental panel inscribed 'London 174' 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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