Croft Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Croft Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-quoin-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Croft Cottage, Blindcrake, Cumberland, CA13 0PZ
- OS grid reference
- NY 137 338
- Coordinates
- 54.69227, -3.33894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage. It has painted rendered walls and a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables, along with painted rendered chimney stacks. The cottage is one-and-a-half storeys high and has two bays. It features a panelled door and sash windows with glazing bars, set within painted stone surrounds. Croft Cottage is listed for its group value with Croft House.
Local climate
Croft Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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