Milestone Set Into Front Boundary Wall of Hillhead Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone Set Into Front Boundary Wall of Hillhead Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-arch-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Set Into Front Boundary Wall of Hillhead Cottage, New Street, Somerton
- OS grid reference
- ST 493 286
- Coordinates
- 51.05514, -2.72452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone set into the front boundary wall of Hillhead Cottage, dating from the early 19th century. It is made of Ham stone and features a cast iron plaque that is now embedded in a lias stone rubble wall. The pillar stands about one metre high and 400 millimetres wide, while the plaque measures approximately 400 millimetres by 125 millimetres deep, with semi-circular projections at the top and bottom. A small portion of the right-hand side of the plaque is missing, and it reads "5/Langport/Castle Cary/10". This road was maintained by the Langport, Somerton, and Castle Cary Trust starting in 1753.
Local climate
Milestone Set Into Front Boundary Wall of Hillhead Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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