Croft House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Croft House
- WRENN ID
- distant-span-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Croft House, Blindcrake, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 179 355
- Coordinates
- 54.70781, -3.27541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft House is a farmhouse dated 1750, as inscribed above the entrance. It features painted rendered walls with angle pilasters and is topped by a graduated greenslate roof with cement rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a six-panel door, with an additional 20th-century door to the right. The windows are sash style, all set within painted stone surrounds. The adjoining barns are not of interest.
Local climate
Croft House 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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