Old Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Cross.
Old Cross
- WRENN ID
- rusted-solder-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- SJ 954 988
- Coordinates
- 53.48628, -2.07075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cross is a stone cross erected in 1793 by the constables to replace an earlier structure. It features a moulded plinth, a square base, and a tapering square shaft topped with a fern-leaved sphere. The shaft is inscribed with the names of the constables: "Erected by Thos. Walker, John Knight, Robert Lees, Constables 1793."
Local climate
Old Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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