Cock Grave Cover Adjacent to West Wall of South Side of Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Grave cover.
Cock Grave Cover Adjacent to West Wall of South Side of Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- late-gravel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Grave cover
- OS grid reference
- NZ 187 554
- Coordinates
- 54.89363, -1.70921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cock grave cover, dating from around 1636, is located adjacent to the west wall of the south side of the Church of St. Margaret. This grave cover is a tapered slab featuring moulded edges and a border inscription. It is supported by two later balusters and is inscribed to Ralph Cock.
Local climate
Cock Grave Cover Adjacent to West Wall of South Side of Church of St Margaret receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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