Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Market cross. 1 related planning application.
Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- rough-tracery-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross, Market Place, HD1 2AA
- OS grid reference
- SE 144 166
- Coordinates
- 53.64659, -1.78225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross, located in the Market Place, was erected in 1671 by Sir John Ramsden, 1st Baronet, following his grant of a Royal Charter to hold a market at this site. It features two modern ashlar steps leading up to an Ionic column that has a roughly gadrooned base and small swags hanging from the volutes. Above the column is a square die that displays achievements of arms on each side, topped with a ball finial. The sculptural style of the Market Cross is similar to the 17th-century garden house at Whitley Beaumont.
Local climate
Market Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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