The Market Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Stockton-on-Tees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. Monument.
The Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- ragged-turret-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Constituency
- Stockton North MP: Chris McDonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- The Market Cross, High Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 445 189
- Coordinates
- 54.56388, -1.31291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross, built in 1768, is located between the Town Hall and The Shambles, on the site of an earlier cross. It features six steps leading up to a high pedestal base. At the top, there is a Roman Doric column that is surmounted by an entablature and an urn.
Local climate
The Market Cross receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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