Village Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Monument.
Village Cross
- WRENN ID
- slow-rampart-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Village Cross, High Street, Sydling St. Nicholas
- OS grid reference
- SY 631 993
- Coordinates
- 50.79293, -2.52382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village Cross, dating from the 15th century, is located on the west side of High Street in Sydling St Nicholas. It is constructed from Ham stone and features an octagonal stone plinth that stands 0.75 metres tall. Above this, there is an octagonal tapering shaft that has plain stops, transitioning to a square base. The height of the shaft is approximately 1.25 metres.
Local climate
Village Cross receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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:
- No EPC on record for this property
- 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