Market Cross, Milton is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Market Cross, Milton
- WRENN ID
- knotted-keystone-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 766 741
- Coordinates
- 57.73999, -4.07288
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Market Cross at Milton dates to 1799. It comprises a tall, octagonal shaft topped with a ball finial, and it stands upon a three-stepped, square stone plinth. The cross has been repaired with iron braces. Worn figures are present. Further details are recorded in J W Small’s Scottish Market Crosses of 1899, plate 117.
Local climate
Market Cross, Milton receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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