Cross Ways is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Farmhouse.
Cross Ways
- WRENN ID
- solemn-belfry-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cross Ways, Kiln Lane, Elmswell
- OS grid reference
- TL 978 631
- Coordinates
- 52.2306, 0.89537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Ways is an early 19th-century farmhouse constructed of gault brick. It features a hipped roof covered with glazed pantiles and has internal chimneys made of gault brick. The building stands two storeys tall and has three windows, which are sashes with flush frames and flat arches made of gauged brick, consisting of small-pane sashes. The entrance door is six-panelled, with the upper pair of panels glazed and the lower four fielded. It is adorned with reeded pilasters and a blind plastered semi-circular fanlight.
Local climate
Cross Ways sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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