Market Cross and Drinking Fountain is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. Market cross. 5 related planning applications.
Market Cross and Drinking Fountain
- WRENN ID
- muted-beam-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross and Drinking Fountain, Market Place, Guisborough, TS14 6BN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 614 160
- Coordinates
- 54.53593, -1.05107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross and drinking fountain, located in the middle of the road at Guisborough Market Place, dates from the mid-18th century and was altered in 1817. It features a tapered square sandstone shaft set on a moulded plinth, which rests on a large, dressed sandstone pedestal. The top is capped with a square stone block that has sundials on the south, east, and west faces, supporting a stone globe topped with a wrought iron compass point and a weather vane finial. The listing also includes a late 19th-century drinking fountain made of pink granite, which is attached to the west side of the pedestal.
Local climate
Market Cross and Drinking Fountain receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2025
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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