Socket Stone of Wayside Cross at Ngr St 4352 1505 (South West Corner of Road Junction) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Socket stone.
Socket Stone of Wayside Cross at Ngr St 4352 1505 (South West Corner of Road Junction)
- WRENN ID
- secret-quoin-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Socket stone
- Address
- Socket Stone of Wayside Cross at Ngr St 4352 1505 (South West Corner of Road Junction), South Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 435 150
- Coordinates
- 50.93216, -2.80502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The socket stone of a wayside cross, dating from the medieval period, possibly the 14th century, is located at the south-west corner of a road junction in Over Stratton, South Petherton. Made of ham stone, the socket stone measures 600 millimeters by 600 millimeters and stands 420 millimeters high. It features traces of a chamfered plinth and has a socket on the top with a mortice that is 330 millimeters square and 150 millimeters deep, with the top corners broached. The stone is deeply embedded in the roadside verge, making the base not visible. This structure may have served as the base for one of the medieval crosses that were erected to mark the boundaries of the Yeabridge and Watergrove parishes.
Local climate
Socket Stone of Wayside Cross at Ngr St 4352 1505 (South West Corner of Road Junction) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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