Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Cottage.
Cross House
- WRENN ID
- slow-mortar-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cross House, South Street, Sheepwash
- OS grid reference
- SS 486 062
- Coordinates
- 50.83618, -4.15095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross House is a pair of cottages from the 18th century, possibly with earlier origins. The cottages have rendered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof, with three brick stacks: one at the right gable end and two along the ridge. The building has a two-storey structure with an attic and features an asymmetrical six-window front, which includes early to mid-20th century casements with two, three, and four lights, some of which are small-paned. There is a 19th-century four-panel door towards the right end and an 18th-century fielded six-panel door towards the left end, both sheltered by a slate doorhood. The interior was inaccessible during the survey but may contain 18th-century joinery and possibly earlier features.
Local climate
Cross House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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