Cross Trees Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Cross Trees Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-mantel-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cross Trees Farm Cottage, Litton Cheney
- OS grid reference
- SY 553 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71394, -2.63438
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Trees Farm Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage attached to Beech House. It features rubble-stone walls and a slate roof, with a brick stack located at the ridge in the center. The cottage is two storeys high and has four windows, which are two-light cast-iron casements with glazing bars. The ground floor windows have segmental brick arches above them, and the wooden cills are present. The front door, located at the center, is a plank door with nine glass lights above it, dating from the 20th century, and is topped with a bracketed wooden canopy. There is an outshut at the left-hand gable end, constructed of rubble stone and covered by a pentice slate roof.
Local climate
Cross Trees Farm Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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