Village Cross, Including Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cross.
Village Cross, Including Pump
- WRENN ID
- ruined-hinge-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cross
- Address
- Village Cross, Including Pump, the Square, Corfe Castle
- OS grid reference
- SY 960 820
- Coordinates
- 50.63843, -2.05754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Cross, including a pump, is located in the center of The Square in Corfe Castle. It was erected in 1897 and features an earlier base. The cross stands on a podium of four steps and has an octagonal tapered shaft topped with a foliated cross. Inscriptions on each face of the base read: "VR 1837-1897", "Erected on the steps of the Ancient Market Cross", and "This Cross was erected to commemorate the 60th year of the reign of Queen Victoria". To the east side of the cross is a timber-cased pump with a lead spout, and the trough is filled solid.
Local climate
Village Cross, Including Pump receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings