Doe Park Cross Base, 170 Metres East of Doe Park is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Cross base.
Doe Park Cross Base, 170 Metres East of Doe Park
- WRENN ID
- noble-mullion-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Cross base
- OS grid reference
- NZ 007 202
- Coordinates
- 54.57767, -1.99001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doe Park Cross Base, located 170 metres east of Doe Park, is a cross base that likely dates back to the medieval period. It is made of sandstone and features a worn, rectangular block with a chamfered top edge. There is an Ordnance Survey bench mark to the east and a central rectangular socket hole. This cross base is said to have been used in the traditional rural ceremony of calf-christening.
Local climate
Doe Park Cross Base, 170 Metres East of Doe Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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