Cross Lane House Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1986. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
Cross Lane House Hotel
- WRENN ID
- deep-oriel-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 January 1986
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Cross Lane House Hotel, Selworthy, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 905 468
- Coordinates
- 51.21053, -3.56894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Lane House Hotel is a former farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with a ceiling added in the late 16th century and alterations made in the 19th century. The building is rendered over rubble and features a triple ridge tile roof that is hipped to the left. There is a rebuilt circular stack on the right gable end and a rendered brick stack rising from behind the ridge between the second and third bays, along with a large stack on the left.
The plan consists of an open hall with cross passage partitions, which has been ceiled to create three cells and a cross passage, and it has been extended one bay to the northeast. The hotel is one and a half storeys high and has a layout of three bays on the front and two bays on the right return. The windows are primarily late 19th to early 20th century casements, with dormers that rise from below the eaves. The ground floor features three-light windows in the outer bays, and there is a canted bay window in the center right, which has a triple ridge tile pentice roof that extends left as a porch supported by wooden trelliswork. A panelled door leads into the building.
The right return has two bays and includes some leaded iron casements. Although the interior has not been seen, it is said to contain a four-bay jointed cruck truss roof with smoke blackening, a timber-framed partition on the first floor, and two heavy stud and panel partitions in the cross passage that have been slightly altered. There is also a reset chamfered lintel above the rear fireplace in the northeast wing, which has an attached bread oven.
Local climate
Cross Lane House Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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