Villlage Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1968. Village cross.
Villlage Cross
- WRENN ID
- distant-rotunda-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 1968
- Type
- Village cross
- Address
- Villlage Cross, Main Street, Asfordby
- OS grid reference
- SK 707 190
- Coordinates
- 52.76404, -0.95242
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village cross in Asfordby is a medieval structure that features a 20th-century shaft and cross. It is made of limestone and has a monolithic base set on an octagonal stepped plinth. The cross has a square base with an octagonal upper section, and the shaft is a renewed tapering square section.
Local climate
Villlage Cross sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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