Cross approximately 1000 metres east of Stile House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Cross.
Cross approximately 1000 metres east of Stile House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-loggia-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- SK 018 566
- Coordinates
- 53.10714, -1.97395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cross located approximately 1,000 meters east of Stile House Farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century. It is made of gritstone and features an octagonal base that supports a two-tiered circular plinth. The square tapered shaft stands about 3 meters high and is chamfered to within 100 millimeters of the base. The head of the cross is dowelled, but the cross itself is missing. Its remote location has led to two theories regarding its purpose: it may have been moved to this site or could have served as a plague cross, facilitating transactions between communities affected by the plague and those that were not.
Local climate
Cross approximately 1000 metres east of Stile House Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 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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