Former Croft Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Former Croft Hotel
- WRENN ID
- twisted-column-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Former Croft Hotel, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9LE
- OS grid reference
- NY 368 036
- Coordinates
- 54.42424, -2.97535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Croft Hotel, dated 1830 as indicated on a rainwater head, is now residential flats. It is a stucco-faced building with boarded eaves featuring ornamented iron brackets with gargoyles. It has small-paned sash windows and clustered diagonal chimneys, with a castellated roofline. A Gothic porch features three open pointed arches, buttresses, and a castellated gable. The garden front has an elaborate iron verandah between deep, three-sided bay windows of three storeys, and Gothic fall pipes resembling octagonal buttresses. A Tudor arch with a castellated top on the rear leads to former kitchens and stables.
The interior is in the Greek Revival style, with Spanish mahogany door and window architraves, painted wooden Greek columns, cornices, an iron balustraded staircase with a mahogany handrail, and an oval stained-glass lantern on columns. Upstairs, a white marble fireplace includes carvings of charioteers. The staircase tower incorporates a long, round-headed window.
The building is a good example of a mixed Greek and Gothic architectural style from the 1830s.
The hotel was formerly part of a group including Croft Lodge, Nos 1 to 5 (consec) (Croft Courtyard), a cobbled courtyard with a mounting block and pump, a gatehouse, Howsley Cottage, Wayside, and Rock Cottage.
Local climate
Former Croft Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 8 transactions since 1998
- 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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