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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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