Milestone at Ngr St 4737 1837 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Milestone.
Milestone at Ngr St 4737 1837
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-step-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone at Ngr St 4737 1837, Stoke Sub Hamdon
- OS grid reference
- ST 473 183
- Coordinates
- 50.96236, -2.75079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone from the early 19th century, made of Ham stone. It has a trapezoid shape, measuring 500mm at the base and tapering to 200mm wide, with a thickness of 250mm and a height of 1.1 meters. The top is flat. Attached to the milestone is a cast-iron plaque that measures 365mm wide and 300mm high overall. The plaque has a shouldered and segmental top, with a double cyma-recta curve at the bottom, and it reads 'ILCHESTER/4'. This road was turnpiked by the Ilchester Trust in 1753.
Local climate
Milestone at Ngr St 4737 1837 receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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