Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. House.
Cross House
- WRENN ID
- old-frieze-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross House, Valley Road, Fawkham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 594 674
- Coordinates
- 51.38404, 0.29067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross House is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed building located on Fawkham Valley Road. Its name likely comes from a village cross that stood nearby. It is believed to have served as the Dower House for Pennis House. The building has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and is tile hung above, topped with a tiled roof. It is two storeys high and features three casement windows. In the center, there is a two-storeyed gable projection that contains a porch on the ground floor, with the first floor slightly oversailing. The doorcase has a moulded architrave surround, a low rectangular fanlight, and a six-panel iron-studded door. The south gable end is stuccoed and includes a buttress in the south-west corner of the ground floor. There is a modern addition at the back. Inside, the house has early 18th century panelling and inglenook fireplaces.
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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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