Village Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Monument. 1 related planning application.
Village Cross
- WRENN ID
- buried-wicket-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Village Cross, High Street, Stretham
- OS grid reference
- TL 512 746
- Coordinates
- 52.34875, 0.21894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Cross in Stretham is an early 15th-century structure made of limestone, raised on a 19th-century brick plinth. It features a tapering broach stop-chamfered shaft that stands on an octagonal base, which has a frieze decorated with quatrefoils and blank shields. At the top, the cross is surmounted by a square head with four canopied niches, each equipped with a bracket for a sculpture, and topped with a crocketted finial.
Local climate
Village Cross sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 application
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