Hard Crag and Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1987. A C17 House, barn, outbuilding. 3 related planning applications.
Hard Crag and Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- twisted-screen-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1987
- Type
- House, barn, outbuilding
- Address
- Hard Crag and Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding, LA12 8QY
- OS grid reference
- SD 360 836
- Coordinates
- 54.24424, -2.9836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century house with an adjoining barn and outbuilding, built of stone rubble, with the house roughcast and all structures having slate roofs. The house is two storeys high and two bays wide. A three-bay bank barn projects forward to the left, while a two-bay outbuilding is recessed to the right. The windows retain small panes, with dripstones below the ground-floor windows, and a fire window with a flat arch is visible in the first bay. The house has gable-end stacks, with the left stack projecting. The barn has a large entrance doorway, and the outbuilding has an entrance to the first bay and a large opening to the second, though this section has suffered some collapse. The rear of the house features a stair wing under a catslide roof, with an arched entrance to the right. The outbuilding includes a large blocked entrance; the barn has two cow house entrances and windows, as well as a winnowing door, all under flat arches. Inside the house, a cruck truss remains in the upper level. There are stop-chamfered spine beams and joists, one ovolo moulded, another ovolo moulded on one side, with signs of a partition to the soffit. A stud and plaster partition has moulded edges to the studs. The fireplace incorporates a corbelled bressummer, a spice cupboard with a door frame to the left, and a section of plank and muntin partition. The barn contains a bulge in the interior wall, behind the fireplace, which likely indicates the presence of a former oven.
Local climate
Hard Crag and Adjoining Barn and Outbuilding sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- 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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