Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (Ngr Ss2398305435) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 2010. Milestone.
Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (Ngr Ss2398305435)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hearth-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 2010
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (Ngr Ss2398305435), A3072, Bude-Stratton
- OS grid reference
- SS 239 054
- Coordinates
- 50.82163, -4.50037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This late 19th-century milestone is located on the south side of the A3072, directly opposite Brooks Garden Centre. Made from slate, the stone has straight edges and a canted front surface that shows traces of white paint. The deeply incised lettering, with some remaining black paint, reads: "HOLSY 7 BUDE 2 ½ STRATTON I."
The milestone is part of a series established between Bude and Highampton in Devon during the 1870s when the road was improved. Of this group, three milestones have survived in Devon, all listed at grade II, and three remain in Cornwall along this route, including this one. It is also marked on the Ordnance Survey map from 1880.
This milestone is significant for its unusual slate material and design, its legibility, and its original location. It has good group value with other listed milestones of the same design along this stretch of road and serves as a physical marker of the area's transport history.
Local climate
Milestone Opposite Brooks Garden Centre (Ngr Ss2398305435) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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