Cross Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1969. Cafe.
Cross Cafe
- WRENN ID
- errant-cupola-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1969
- Type
- Cafe
- Address
- Cross Cafe, 6, Horse Fair, Banbury
- OS grid reference
- SP 453 403
- Coordinates
- 52.06, -1.33997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Cafe is a 17th-century house that has been converted into a cafe, with later alterations. The building is constructed of regular coursed ironstone rubble and features a steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses. There is a brick stack at the right end of the building. It is a single storey plus attic with a single window width and has a 19th-century shop front. The entrance passage at the rear of the property includes a wooden lintel with a keystone. There is also a single gabled attic dormer. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Cross Cafe sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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