Cross Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.

Cross Cottage

WRENN ID
silver-paling-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Devon
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Cross Cottage, Sandford
OS grid reference
SS 845 054
Coordinates
50.83745, -3.64052
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cross Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage. It dates from the early to mid-17th century and was remodeled in the late 19th century. The building is made of plastered cob and rubble, with cob or rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. It has an L-shaped layout, with the main block facing southwest and a rear block at right angles. The structure includes a two-room front block, a small lobby to the left (which may have been a passage, hall, and inner room of the earlier farmhouse), and a two-room rear block. Alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries have obscured the original arrangement.

The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-window front featuring various sizes of 19th and 20th-century casements, including 20th-century French windows at the left end. There is a 19th-century door to the right of the center, which is sheltered by a late 19th-century porch with trellis sides and shaped bargeboards. The rear block has a door that leads through a projecting stack. Inside, the main front room has a double-ovolo moulded beam, while the rear room features a chamfered beam with scroll stops. The end room of the rear block was formerly used as a dairy, with a hayloft above. The roof is not accessible.

Local climate

Cross Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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