Cross House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1957. A C18 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Cross House Farm
- WRENN ID
- gentle-threshold-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1957
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cross House Farm, Orton, CA5 6NA
- OS grid reference
- NY 328 542
- Coordinates
- 54.87877, -3.04829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross House Farm, formerly known as The Cross, is a late 18th or early 19th century farmhouse. It is constructed of Flemish bond brickwork above a chamfered stone plinth, with raised V-jointed quoins. The roof is of graduated greenslate, and there are end chimney stacks finished with cement rendering. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays. The front features a four-panel door set within a painted, moulded stone architrave. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within painted, moulded stone architraves. Associated outbuildings are not of particular architectural interest.
Local climate
Cross House Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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 — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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