Butter Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1970. Monument.
Butter Cross
- WRENN ID
- high-pediment-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1970
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Butter Cross, Alveley
- OS grid reference
- SO 752 857
- Coordinates
- 52.46906, -2.36568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butter Cross is a plain stone structure dating from 1954. It features a shaft about 5 feet high, set on a circular base, with a round head that retains traces of a Maltese Cross on each face. While it is thought to mark the site of an ancient open-air marketplace, its location nearly a mile from the village suggests it was more likely used as a boundary cross during times of plague.
Local climate
Butter Cross receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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