Croft Cottage Croft Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. Cottage, farmhouse.

Croft Cottage Croft Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twisted-stronghold-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lake District National Park
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 August 1985
Type
Cottage, farmhouse
Address
Croft Cottage Croft Farmhouse, Borrowdale, Cumberland
OS grid reference
NY 262 137
Coordinates
54.5136, -3.1412
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Croft Cottage and Croft Farmhouse is a cottage and farmhouse built in the late 17th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The building features rendered walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof, which includes rendered and slate chimney stacks. The structure is two stories high, with a two-bay cottage on the left and a three-bay farmhouse on the right, all covered by a common roof. There are 20th-century doors set within 20th-century porches, and the windows are sash style with glazing bars in plain reveals.

Local climate

Croft Cottage Croft Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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