Market Cross and Stepped Plinth is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1953. Market cross. 2 related planning applications.
Market Cross and Stepped Plinth
- WRENN ID
- dim-crypt-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1953
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross and Stepped Plinth, High Street, Cheadle
- OS grid reference
- SK 007 432
- Coordinates
- 52.98671, -1.98994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross and stepped plinth, dating from the 17th century, is located on the south side of High Street in Cheadle. It is made of stone and features a roughly rectangular plinth that is raised on all sides by six steps. The cross itself has a square shaft that is chamfered into an octagonal shape, topped with a pyramidal capping stone.
Local climate
Market Cross and Stepped Plinth receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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