Cross House and Church View is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Residential. 1 related planning application.

Cross House and Church View

WRENN ID
leaning-floor-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Residential
Address
Cross House and Church View, the Street, Bowes, DL12 9LG
OS grid reference
NY 992 135
Coordinates
54.5174, -2.01296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cross House and Church View is a pair of houses built around 1840, with some later alterations. They are constructed from tooled, squared rubble and feature a stone-flagged roof with stone chimney stacks. Cross House is located on the left side.

The buildings are two storeys high and have a wide three-bay front, with flush quoins on the left. There is a central segmental archway with flanking doorways that were added later. A passage behind the archway leads to the rear. The doors have been replaced and feature flush lintels, with the right door having an overlight. The right bay contains a 16-pane sash window, while the left bay has a replaced bow window. Above, there are three 16-pane sashes. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers, with end stacks that have top ledges and water tables.

The buildings are included for their group value.

Local climate

Cross House and Church View sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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