Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House. 4 related planning applications.
Cross House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross House, West Street, Fontmell Magna, SP7 0PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 866 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95139, -2.19129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross House is a house dating from the late 16th century, with early 19th-century extensions. It features ashlar and rubble walls and a tiled roof with end ashlar stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical three-window range, along with an additional 19th-century bay on the right. The windows are square-headed stone mullioned types with returned labels. There is a central 19th-century porch, and the doorway has a chamfered, four-centred head with continuous jambs, leading to a plank door.
Inside, one room has a four-panel ceiling with moulded, intersecting beams, and there is a reset beam from around 1500 in the rear wing. The interior also features partially reset plank and muntin partitions.
Local climate
Cross House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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