Mercat Cross, Kettins is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Cross.
Mercat Cross, Kettins
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-jamb-snow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Cross
- OS grid reference
- NO 238 390
- Coordinates
- 56.53726, -3.24057
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mercat Cross in Kettins is a fragment of an octagonal shaft that stands 2 feet 3 inches high on a stone base. It is topped by a pre-Reformation font and was relocated in 1873.
Local climate
Mercat Cross, Kettins sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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