Steps to Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1968. A C18 or earlier Steps. 1 related planning application.
Steps to Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- high-bailey-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1968
- Type
- Steps
- Address
- Steps to Market Cross, Market Place, Knaresborough, HG5 8AL
- OS grid reference
- SE 350 570
- Coordinates
- 54.00788, -1.46682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The steps to the market cross, known locally as the Butter Cross, date from the 18th century or earlier and are made of millstone grit. They consist of four concentric steps arranged in a circular shape. A 20th-century cross sits atop the steps. An 1849 Ordnance Survey map indicates this location as the 'Site of the Market Cross', showing the steps as octagonal in plan.
Local climate
Steps to Market Cross receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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