Milestone Adjacent to Milestone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Milestone.
Milestone Adjacent to Milestone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-bracket-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- ST 810 323
- Coordinates
- 51.09, -2.27265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, dating from the mid-18th century, is located on the turnpike road from London to Exeter, adjacent to Milestone Cottage. It is made of sandstone and features a cast iron plate. The milestone is a block measuring 1 meter high, 400 millimeters wide, and 300 millimeters thick, with a rounded top. The shaped plate displays the distances to Wincanton and Hindon, both marked as 7 miles. The milestone is set back against the wall of Milestone Cottage.
Local climate
Milestone Adjacent to Milestone Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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