Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
Cross House
- WRENN ID
- tired-facade-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross House, Fore Street, Northam, EX39 1AN
- OS grid reference
- SS 448 287
- Coordinates
- 51.03741, -4.21379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross House is a building from the 18th century or early 19th century, featuring a long, two-storey plastered front. The first floor has four five-light windows. The roof is slate with gable ends, and there is a cornice and parapet. The windows have glazing bars, although some have been altered. The doorway is adorned with flat Tuscan pilasters and an entablature, topped with a radial-bar fanlight. The building's frontage is set behind a narrow garden, although the railings have been removed. Cross House is part of a group that includes Northam House.
Local climate
Cross House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 2021
- 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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