Crosstree Plinth is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1988. Plinth.
Crosstree Plinth
- WRENN ID
- outer-cloister-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1988
- Type
- Plinth
- Address
- Crosstree Plinth, South Tawton, West Devon
- OS grid reference
- SX 653 944
- Coordinates
- 50.73389, -3.91011
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crosstree Plinth is a plinth built around an old village elm, which was replaced by an oak sapling in 1984. It is dated 1863 and was erected at the expense of H.A. Hoare. The structure is made of coursed blocks of granite ashlar and has a square plan, with walls that rise vertically and step in at the top. On the south side, there is a shallow recess that contains a granite bench, which was added in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, as noted on a plaque above. The north and west sides are blind, although there is a granite trough against the west side. The south side once featured a tap set in an ornate cast iron frame resembling a Victorian fireplace grate. A plate filling the round arch has embossed lettering that records the erection of the plinth by H.A. Hoare Esq, of Oxenham, on July 24th, 1863.
Local climate
Crosstree Plinth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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