Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Farmhouse.
Cross Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cinder-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cross Farmhouse, 42, Main Road, Meare
- OS grid reference
- ST 435 424
- Coordinates
- 51.1782, -2.80857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with some 19th-century alterations and additions. The building is roughcast with double Roman tile roofs and brick ridge stacks. Originally an open hall house, it has been modified into a three-unit and cross-passage plan, with further rearrangements in the 20th century. The road-facing side has two storeys and features three bays, with the left bay projecting slightly under a catslide roof. It includes two and three-light casement windows. There is a door opening in the rear wing, which has a 20th-century panelled door.
Inside, there is a stud end panel screen with a 17th-century painted pattern, and this room also has a broad fireplace with a moulded dressed stone lintel. It is believed that another stud and panel screen exists on the first floor. The roof features collar-beam trusses, trenched purlins, and wind-bracing, with one cruck thought to still be present.
Local climate
Cross Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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