Market Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Market cross. 2 related planning applications.
Market Cross
- WRENN ID
- crooked-balcony-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Market cross
- Address
- Market Cross, Market Place (Centre), Ilchester, BA22 8LN
- OS grid reference
- ST 521 227
- Coordinates
- 51.00189, -2.68269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Cross, located in the Market Place, dates back to 1795 and stands on the site of an earlier cross. It is constructed from ham stone and features a circular base with two chamfered offsets, which is set on a circular step. Above this, there is a square stepped plinth that supports a simple Doric column with an entablature moulding. At the top, there is a square-plan block with sundials that have sheet metal gnomons, topped with a ball finial and a wrought-iron windvane.
Local climate
Market Cross receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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