Milestone is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. Milestone. 1 related planning application.
Milestone
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-zinc-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone, High Street, Barkway, SG8 8ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 384 357
- Coordinates
- 52.00249, 0.01561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is one of sixteen milestones situated along the historic route connecting Cambridge and London. The milestones were commissioned in 1728-32 by William Warren, funded by a bequest in 1586 from Dr. W. Mowse, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to maintain roads around Cambridge. This milestone, the sixteenth in the series, was erected on May 29th, 1728, at a cost of £6. The milestone is a roughly 2-meter-high freestone pillar, square in plan, topped with a rounded pyramidal cap. The front face features low-relief shields of arms, representing Trinity Hall and Robert Hare, Dr. Mowse's executor. An iron plate with a segmental top edge was added around 1804, potentially designed by McAdam for the Wadesmill Turnpike Trust. The plate displays distances: “LONDON 35/WARE 14/CAMBRIDGE 16”.
Local climate
Milestone sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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