Base and Cross Shaft Fragment in the Garden of Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Cross. 2 related planning applications.

Base and Cross Shaft Fragment in the Garden of Cross House

WRENN ID
heavy-banister-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Cross
Address
Base and Cross Shaft Fragment in the Garden of Cross House, the Street, Bowes, DL12 9LG
OS grid reference
NY 992 135
Coordinates
54.51732, -2.01304
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a fragment of a medieval cross, located in the garden of Cross House in Bowes. It is constructed of sandstone. The remains consist of a square plinth with rounded corners and a chamfered top edge, which supports an octagonal base and a worn stump of a cross shaft standing approximately 0.6 metres high.

Local climate

Base and Cross Shaft Fragment in the Garden of Cross House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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