Cross and Reset Dressed Stone in Garden to South of Higher Lank Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1962. A Medieval Cross.
Cross and Reset Dressed Stone in Garden to South of Higher Lank Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-spindle-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1962
- Type
- Cross
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Cross and Reset Dressed Stone in Garden to South of Higher Lank Farmhouse, St. Breward
- OS grid reference
- SX 089 756
- Coordinates
- 50.54889, -4.69849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a cross and reset dressed stone located in the garden to the south of Higher Lank Farmhouse, dating from the medieval period and made of granite. It features a resited wheelhead cross on a short shaft, with a raised rim and a Latin cross in relief on both faces. Additionally, there is a resited granite corbelled bracket of high quality, which includes a carved shield and an angel's head. Other pieces of dressed granite include the remains of what is likely a battlemented parapet. Higher Lank Farmhouse, which is of considerable status, may have originally had a gatehouse, and it is possible that some of the dressed granite pieces, along with a datestone, were sourced from such a building and have been reset in the garden wall at the front of the house.
Local climate
Cross and Reset Dressed Stone in Garden to South of Higher Lank Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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