Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House.
Cross Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-glass-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross Farmhouse, 1, South Street, Comberton
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 562
- Coordinates
- 52.18687, 0.01972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with some 19th-century additions. It is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, featuring a steeply pitched tiled roof with a rebuilt ridge stack. The left-hand gable end also has a rebuilt end stack. The house consists of a two-bay hall with a lobby entry and a crosswing on the right side. There is a shop or service wing added to the left side in the 19th century. The hall has one storey and an attic, with two gable dormers that have 19th-century casements, and two additional 19th- to 20th-century casements on either side of the doorway to the lobby entry. The entrance features a six-panelled door. The crosswing, which is contemporary with the hall, has two storeys and one casement window on each floor. Inside, the framing is mostly obscured, except for one ground floor room that has stop-chamfered intersecting main beams. There is one blocked inglenook fireplace and another at the left-hand end. The property also includes No. 8 Barton Road.
Local climate
Cross Farmhouse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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