Crossways is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Cottage.
Crossways
- WRENN ID
- veiled-chancel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Crossways, 1, Coton Road, Grantchester
- OS grid reference
- TL 432 556
- Coordinates
- 52.18085, 0.09305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crossways is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with a 19th-century shop addition. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster render, topped with a reed thatch roof that is half-hipped, featuring an original red brick ridge stack, although the upper courses have been rebuilt. The building has a three-bay plan oriented with its end facing the road and consists of one storey and an attic. It includes two gable dormers, two horizontal sliding panes, and a boarded door. A bread oven projects from the rear wall. The 19th-century lean-to addition at the road end was originally a butcher's shop.
Local climate
Crossways 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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