Cross Ways is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Cross Ways
- WRENN ID
- little-clay-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross Ways, Hitchin Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 215 314
- Coordinates
- 51.96788, -0.23193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Ways is a house built in 1906 by C M Crickmer, noted as one of the best examples of his early work. The building has one and a half storeys and features a two-bay gabled front. It has a tiled roof with multi-form roughcast stacks and roughcast walls that display exposed vertical studding in the gables. The windows are four and five light casements with glazing bars, and there is a boarded door.
Local climate
Cross Ways sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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