The Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. House, barn.
The Croft
- WRENN ID
- iron-pewter-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- The Croft, Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 440 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60608, -2.86724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Croft is a house with attached barns, built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features roughcast stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, arranged in a U-plan. The house is two storeys high, with lower outbuildings. The south elevation has three bays, with recessed and lower outbuildings on either side; part of the left outbuilding has been incorporated into the house. The building has quoins, and the windows are modern small-paned casements, except for the first bay on the ground floor, which has been replaced by a canted bay window. The central entrance is round-headed, featuring an open pediment and a small-paned glazed door. There are ashlar gable-end stacks with caps. The left outbuilding has had modern windows added.
On the north elevation, there are sashed windows with glazing bars, and those on the first floor have opening lights. The central bay features a round-headed stair window with pilasters and a key, along with intersecting glazing bars at the top; there is a small window below and to the right. Narrow flanking bays have entrances. The barn to the left includes a stable entrance with paired doors and an end lean-to outbuilding. The barn to the right has a central entrance similar to the left, a sashed window to the left, a double mounting block to the right, and an end round-headed recess with a bowl, along with a later garage wing that is in keeping with the original design.
Local climate
The Croft sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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