Milepost Between Numbers 74 and 76 is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Milepost. 1 related planning application.
Milepost Between Numbers 74 and 76
- WRENN ID
- odd-pier-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Milepost
- Address
- Milepost Between Numbers 74 and 76, High Street, Ingatestone and Fryerning, CM4 9DW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 650 996
- Coordinates
- 51.67132, 0.38594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century milestone located between numbers 74 and 76 on the High Street in Ingatestone. It is made of cast iron and has a triangular shape. One side is embossed with the distance to Chelmsford (6 miles), another displays the distance to Brentwood (5 miles), and the back, facing southeast, is embossed with 'Ingatestone'. The route from Shenfield to Ingatestone was one of the earliest in Essex to be made a turnpike road in 1695, and milestones were required by law from the 1760s. This particular design in cast iron was introduced in 1819 by the Essex Trust, at the suggestion of Lewis Majendie, to avoid the recurring expense of recutting inscriptions on limestone and improve clarity. A previous milestone at this location is recorded in Cary's 1790 map.
Local climate
Milepost Between Numbers 74 and 76 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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