White Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1987. House.
White Cross House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-baluster-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP: Mike Wood (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cross House, Orton Lane, Wombourne
- OS grid reference
- SO 869 951
- Coordinates
- 52.55426, -2.19391
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cross House is a farmhouse, now a house, built in 1736. It is constructed of red brick with a plain tile roof and features brick integral end stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan with a short wing at the rear, standing two storeys tall with an attic. It has five bays, with casement windows that have segmental heads and three gabled attic dormers. The central gabled porch, added around 1900, includes a 20th-century door and a rectangular overlight.
Inside, there is a dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, stop-chamfered spine beams, and panelled oak window shutters. Several original doors remain, including those to the attic rooms, which are made of horizontal planks fixed to vertical planks. In the front garden, there is a datestone from 1736 that was recently removed from the front of the house.
Local climate
White Cross House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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