Base of Cross Adjoining Road Junction at Centre of Village is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Cross base.
Base of Cross Adjoining Road Junction at Centre of Village
- WRENN ID
- burning-dormer-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- Cross base
- OS grid reference
- SS 568 103
- Coordinates
- 50.87457, -4.03558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The base of a cross located at the road junction in the center of Dowland village is a late medieval structure. It is made of granite and has an octagonal shape, featuring cushion stops and a square socket for a cross.
Local climate
Base of Cross Adjoining Road Junction at Centre of Village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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