Market Cross, Main Street, Aberlady is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

Market Cross, Main Street, Aberlady

WRENN ID
leaning-glass-root
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 464 799
Coordinates
56.00931, -2.86075
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century market cross situated on the north side of Main Street in Aberlady. The cross consists of a square sandstone shaft, which has been renewed and braced, measuring 6 feet by 10 inches. The shaft is mounted on a base of four stone steps. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (No. 784). References to the cross appear in the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland’s inventory of monuments in East Lothian, in J. Small’s book Scottish Market Crosses, and in C. McWilliam's Building of Scotland: Lothian. Historical maps of Haddingtonshire from 1854 and 1892 also depict the cross.

Local climate

Market Cross, Main Street, Aberlady receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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