Cross Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Cross Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-iron-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cross Tree Cottage, 9, Cross Tree Road, Wicken, MK19 6BX
- OS grid reference
- SP 746 393
- Coordinates
- 52.0474, -0.91304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Tree Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is built of coursed limestone rubble and features a thatched roof, along with stone end and ridge stacks that have early brick flues, likely original, with the right end stack set diagonally. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-window range with a three-unit through-passage plan.
The entrance is a 20th-century door located to the left of the centre, topped with a wooden lintel. The ground floor includes a three-light casement window to the left, two-light casements in the centre and to the right, while the first floor features three-light casements in the centre and right, and a two-light casement to the left, all with wooden lintels. A central roof dormer is present, along with a semi-circular bread oven projection on the right side.
Inside, the cottage showcases ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with an ogee-stop-chamfered bressumer. The roof structure consists of collar trusses with ogee wind braces supporting the purlins.
Local climate
Cross Tree Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- 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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