Crossland Fosse is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 12 related planning applications.
Crossland Fosse
- WRENN ID
- pale-grate-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crossland Fosse, Box End Road, Kempston Rural, MK43 8RS
- OS grid reference
- TL 009 493
- Coordinates
- 52.13328, -0.52644
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crossland Fosse is a William and Mary Revival house, built in 1889. It is constructed of red brick and features a clay tile roof. The building has two storeys and attics, with projecting wings on either side that have brick quoins. The gables are curled and topped with pediments, and the left gable includes a central projecting chimney stack with paired rectangular flues.
At the center of the house is a two-storey porch with a curved gable and ball finials. The porch has a heavy rusticated door surround with a decorated keystone and a carved stone panel above the doorway. The windows are stone mullioned, with some featuring decorative moulded brick arches above.
The side and rear elevations have hipped dormer windows with tile-hung cheeks and roof finials. The south elevation includes a two-storey canted bay on the left and a modern semi-circular conservatory. There is a projecting bay at the southeast corner with a curled gable. The east garden elevation features the original conservatory with dentil eaves and a right-hand projecting gable wing.
Local climate
Crossland Fosse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- 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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