Cross Base is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1985. Cross base.
Cross Base
- WRENN ID
- vacant-eave-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1985
- Type
- Cross base
- Address
- Cross Base, Primrose Lane, New Mills
- OS grid reference
- SJ 992 874
- Coordinates
- 53.38417, -2.01275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Base is a stone structure of medieval origin located on Primrose Lane in Mellor Moor. It is roughly cube-shaped and features a recess on its top face. Currently, it serves as the base for a sign post, with a wall abutting it on two sides and a timber post installed as the sign post.
Local climate
Cross Base 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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