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Overview
Blackaton Cross is recorded as Listed building in England South Hams. The saved record does not give a safe building date. Its recorded grade or rating is II. The saved evidence fixes the building and its protected record while keeping unknown builders, people and changes open.
Why it was built
The record classifies Blackaton Cross as Listed building. It does not safely state the first owner's purpose beyond that use, so this first account does not borrow a story from a namesake.
People and work
No architect, builder, owner, worker or resident is named in the saved wording. Those people remain unknown until the linked official record or another source identifies them.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish particular rebuilding, extensions, damage or changes of use. No visible feature is assigned a date without supporting evidence.
What survives
The public record still identifies the place as Listed building. Its saved point marks the building or centre of its recorded area, but the stock wording does not provide a room-by-room condition report.
Why it mattered
Its official record preserves Blackaton Cross as part of the area's built history. Its recorded grade or rating is II. The exact architectural or community importance remains with the linked evidence rather than an invented claim.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Blackaton Cross: a wayside cross 1.25km north of Lee Moor Villagemonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Bowl barrow at Emmets Postmonument0.2 miles
- Boundary stone by the roadsidemonument0.4 miles
- Two pillow mounds and a small area of tin streamwork earthworks 770m north of Blackaton Cross, forming part of Trowlesworthy Warrenmonument0.5 miles
- Pillow mound 790m NNE of Blackaton Cross, forming part of Trowlesworthy Warrenmonument0.5 miles
- Pillow mound 860m NNW of Blackaton Cross, forming part of Trowlesworthy Warrenmonument0.5 miles
- Pillow mound 860m SSE of Trowlesworthy Warren House, forming part of Trowlesworthy Warrenmonument0.5 miles
- Trowlesworthy Stone Rowmonument0.6 miles
- A stone alignment, kerbed cairn, prehistoric settlement, four pillow mounds, a vermin trap and animal runs 720m south west of Great Trowlesworthy Tormonument0.6 miles
- Pillow Moundsmonument0.6 miles
- Trowlesworthy 2 prehistoric stone rowmonument0.6 miles
- Double stone alignment with a terminal stone setting south of Great Trowlesworthy Tormonument0.6 miles
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