Crosthwaite House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1989. House, hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Crosthwaite House
- WRENN ID
- former-slate-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1989
- Type
- House, hotel
- Address
- Crosthwaite House, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland and Furness, LA8 8BP
- OS grid reference
- SD 447 911
- Coordinates
- 54.31292, -2.8503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crosthwaite House is a house that has been converted into a hotel, likely built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features roughcast stone with some dressed stone and a slate roof. The south-west facade is three storeys high and has three bays. It includes a stone base, a first-floor sill band, a top frieze, and a moulded gutter. The windows are sash style with glazing bars, with larger windows on the ground floor. The entrance has a stone porch with a round-arched opening, a cornice, and a blocking course, along with a nine-panel door and an overlight. The building has gable-end stacks and a lean-to outshut on the left side. The rear of the house features a tall stair window with small-paned fixed glazing, two sash windows, and one window with leaded glazing. There are entrances on each floor, with the first-floor entrance above a 20th-century flat-roofed outshut and the second-floor entrance leading to a fire escape.
Local climate
Crosthwaite House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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