The Round House and Base of Medieval Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Market house.
The Round House and Base of Medieval Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- former-gallery-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market house
- Address
- The Round House and Base of Medieval Market Cross, Newport Square, Launceston, PL15 8EL
- OS grid reference
- SX 328 851
- Coordinates
- 50.64212, -4.36583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House and base of the Medieval Market Cross is a market house and preaching cross located in Launceston. The base of the cross dates back to medieval times, while the market house was built in 1829 for the Duke of Northumberland. It features a granite plinth and is otherwise made of stuccoed brick, with buttressed angles and a moulded cornice leading to an embattled parapet. The building has a conical slate roof topped with a tall weather vane and is designed in a Gothic style with an octagonal plan. It is a single storey structure with four open bays, each having two-centred-arched openings. The shaft of the cross is a short dressed granite monolith. This cross was historically significant as it was the site where former Members of Parliament were proposed when Newport was a separate Parliamentary Borough.
Local climate
The Round House and Base of Medieval Market Cross sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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