Base of Cross at Junction with Cross Hill and Skellow Road is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1988. Cross base.
Base of Cross at Junction with Cross Hill and Skellow Road
- WRENN ID
- tall-timber-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1988
- Type
- Cross base
- Address
- Base of Cross at Junction with Cross Hill and Skellow Road, Buttercross
- OS grid reference
- SE 530 104
- Coordinates
- 53.58769, -1.20002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The base of a cross, dating from the 16th or 17th century, is located at the junction of Cross Hill and Skellow Road in Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It is constructed from magnesian limestone and features a tier of three square steps. The upper step is a plain monolithic platform that measures approximately 1.2 meters across.
Local climate
Base of Cross at Junction with Cross Hill and Skellow Road receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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