Milestone on Grass Verge,100 Metres East of Junction with Bath Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Milestone.

Milestone on Grass Verge,100 Metres East of Junction with Bath Road

WRENN ID
second-dormer-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1983
Type
Milestone
OS grid reference
SU 771 756
Coordinates
51.47454, -0.89012
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This milestone, dating from the 18th century, is located on the grass verge, 100 metres east of the junction with Bath Road. It has been re-set and features incised Roman lettering. The east face of the milestone indicates distances to Maidenhead (9 miles), Colnbrook (18 miles), and London (35 miles). The west face shows distances to Reading (4 miles), Newbury (21 miles), and Bath (73 miles).

Local climate

Milestone on Grass Verge,100 Metres East of Junction with Bath Road 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Pump at the Corner of Park Lane and the Old Bath Road Grade II 252 m
  2. Charvill Farmhouse Grade II 660 m
  3. Little Court Grade II 1.1 km
  4. Spring Cottages Grade II 1.1 km
  5. Spring Cottages Grade II 1.1 km
  6. Keepers Cottage Grade II 1.2 km
  7. K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Pearsons Hall Grade II 1.3 km
  8. The Wagon and Horses Public House Grade II 1.3 km
  9. Pilgrims Grade II 1.3 km
  10. The Robert Palmer Cottages Grade II 1.3 km