Milestone SE of Pendragon House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 2010. Milestone.
Milestone SE of Pendragon House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-corner-saffron
- 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 SE of Pendragon House, A395, Davidstow
- OS grid reference
- SX 144 870
- Coordinates
- 50.65344, -4.62637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a rectangular milestone with a rounded top, dating from around 1833. It is painted white with a black base, and features large, clearly incised black sans serif lettering reading 'L/13'.
The milestone has a historical connection to the Launceston Turnpike Trust, established by an Act of Parliament in 1760 to improve roads leading to Launceston. The route included travel from Okehampton in Devon, around the northern edge of Bodmin Moor to Camelford, then onwards west. This specific milestone stood on this route between Launceston and Camelford.
Following a change in road management and a shift in the starting point for measuring distances from St Thomas' Bridge to the centre of Broad Street market in Launceston in 1843, the milestone was relocated.
The milestone is designated at Grade II for its intact condition and carved inscription, its significance within a group of similar milestones along the turnpike route, and as an example of an early 19th-century milestone that demonstrates the standardization of roads and the introduction of turnpikes to meet the transport needs of an increasingly industrial 19th-century Cornwall.
Local climate
Milestone SE of Pendragon House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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