Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. House.
Cross House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cloister-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross House, Stow Road, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 935 701
- Coordinates
- 52.29525, 0.8364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross House is a house dating from the late 18th century, with earlier fragments, and was extended in the 1840s. It has two storeys and is constructed of gault brick. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, featuring a central well. There are three small external chimney-stacks and two large internal chimney-stacks, all with plain rectangular shafts and corbelled heads topped with a row of curved tiles. The house has five windows, which are small-paned sashes set in deep reveals with gauged brick heads. The off-centre doorway is flanked by flat pilasters and features double doors with two sunk panels in heavily moulded surrounds.
An open veranda, added around 1890, runs along the east, south, and west sides of the house. This single-storey structure has 27 bays and a small gable over the main entry. At the rear of the house, there is a range of early 19th-century outbuildings, including a stable and coach house, which are backed on the east side by a high wall made of gault brick with a dentil cornice.
Local climate
Cross House 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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