Milestone on Rose Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 2021. Monument.
Milestone on Rose Hill
- WRENN ID
- final-panel-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Sutton and Cheam MP: Luke Taylor (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 2021
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- TQ 259 660
- Coordinates
- 51.37982, -0.19193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, built in 1745 by the Surrey & Sussex Turnpike Trust, is made of limestone. It is shaped like a carved pillar with a square shaft and a pyramidal top. The front (east) side features the inscription: ROYAL/ EXCHANGE/ XI/ MILES/ WHITEHALL/ X/ MILES. The north face has remnants of additional inscriptions that are now unreadable, but the date 1745 is still visible.
Local climate
Milestone on Rose Hill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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