Village Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. Village cross.

Village Cross

WRENN ID
muffled-chimney-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1985
Type
Village cross
Address
Village Cross, the Green
OS grid reference
NZ 151 647
Coordinates
54.9767, -1.76425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The village cross is made of sandstone and sandstone ashlar, with the date 1795 inscribed on the plinth and 1951 on the base of the shaft. It features three square steps leading up to a chamfered plinth that supports an ashlar clustered shaft, topped with a broad-based octagonal-section cross finial.

Local climate

Village Cross receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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