Cross Shaft About 6 Metres West of the Dower House is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1967. Cross shaft.
Cross Shaft About 6 Metres West of the Dower House
- WRENN ID
- stark-zinc-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1967
- Type
- Cross shaft
- OS grid reference
- SX 467 862
- Coordinates
- 50.65534, -4.16917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cross shaft, dating from around the 15th century, is made of granite and stands approximately 4 metres high. It is located about 6 metres west of the Dower House, positioned between Lew Mill and the Dower House. The shaft was erected by Sabine Baring-Gould, who discovered it in the side of the mill leat. Baring-Gould believed it to be a Saxon standing stone. He served as both parson and squire at Lew Trenchard from 1881 until his death in 1924 and was a passionate antiquarian with a keen interest in Dartmoor's history, serving as President of the Devonshire Association in 1896.
Local climate
Cross Shaft About 6 Metres West of the Dower House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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