The Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
The Cross House
- WRENN ID
- stark-alcove-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cross House, Birch Road, Layer-De-La-Haye
- OS grid reference
- TL 967 200
- Coordinates
- 51.844, 0.85463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross House is a 16th-century building that has undergone extensive alterations in the 18th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, standing two storeys high with a gabled cross wing at the south end and a red plain tile roof. The house features a four-to-one window range of double-hung vertical sliding sashes with glazing bars. There is a decorative plaster panel at the center of the west front. The building has 19th-century chimney stacks and a staircase tower on the east side, along with a later extension and a modern porch with a red plain tile roof on the north side. Additionally, there is a 19th-century boundary wall.
Local climate
The Cross House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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