Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Cross Farmhouse

WRENN ID
vacant-tower-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cross Farmhouse, Launcells, EX23 9NL
OS grid reference
SS 265 060
Coordinates
50.82833, -4.46483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cross Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse located in Launcells. It is built of colourwashed rendered cob on a stone plinth and features a thatched roof, which has been partly rethatched with Dutch water reed and has a half-hipped design at the right end. The farmhouse has a projecting left gable end stack with a brick chimney and an additional brick chimney on the ridge.

The layout consists of a single depth, three-room plan with direct entry into the central room. The left end of the building may be an addition, indicated by a change in the wall plane and eaves level, as well as a former external wall between the ground floor room on the left and the central room. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an off-centre, enclosed porch with a sloping slate roof and a six-plank door. There is a second entrance to the left of the front, which features a 20th-century door.

On the ground floor, there is one two-light timber casement window with six panes per light on the left, which replaced a former door and was inserted in the 20th century. A similar casement window is located to the left of the porch, and there is a four-pane timber opening to the right of the porch. The rear of the farmhouse has three similar casement windows and four 20th-century buttresses. Inside, the central room has a partially blocked large fireplace, and the roof timbers are said to be pegged.

Local climate

Cross Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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