Cross House

Cross House is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early 17th century with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame on a high red brick plinth with plastered infill and machine tile roofs. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of a hall with 2 and a half bays and a cross-wing of 2 bays facing the road. It is two storeys high with a gable-lit attic in the cross-wing.

The framing consists of square panels, with three panels from the raised cill to the wall-plate. The first floor of the left-hand gable end displays moulded hewn jettying, which shows evidence of continuation to the front and the right-hand gable end. The left-hand gable end has vertical struts with inclined struts from the upper collar, while the right-hand gable end is clad in brick and the hall is roughcast. The front of the cross-wing has two windows, featuring tripartite glazing bar sashes on either side of a central six-panel door, which has its upper panels now glazed and is topped with a bracketed hood. A prominent cruciform ridge stack was rebuilt around 1980 to the right of the hall range, and there is a 20th-century brick end stack on the right-hand wall of the cross-wing.

Inside, the timber frame is intact, with chamfered spine beams and cross beams throughout. There are two large fireplaces on the ground floor, one of which has a massive Grinshill stone lintel. Additionally, there is a 17th-century oak door in the kitchen, located at the back end of the former hall, which features iron strap hinges.