Rue Crofts and Attached Barn to North is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Rue Crofts and Attached Barn to North
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-casement-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rue Crofts and Attached Barn to North, Slacks Lane, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5HU
- OS grid reference
- SD 636 929
- Coordinates
- 54.33113, -2.56123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A farmhouse with an attached barn, dated 1711 and significantly altered in the early to mid-19th century, with more recent changes. The farmhouse is now a house. It is constructed of rubble stone with quoins, and has slate roofs, with some stone slates at the rear. The building follows a U-plan, incorporating a two-unit, double-depth house aligned north-south, facing west, with wings attached to both sides. The north wing was originally a barn, and has a projecting section to the west.
The main, two-story, two-window-wide house has a small gabled porch centered on the front, sheltering a 20th-century part-glazed door. It is flanked by two large rectangular windows with modern multi-pane glazing. The window on the right side of the first floor is crossed internally at half-height by the ceiling of the upper room; to the right of this window is the lintel of a former single-light window. Gable chimneys accentuate the roofline. A side window with glazing bars is located on the re-entrant side of the south wing, at ground floor, and another similar window is set above it in the gable wall. The rear wall of the main range features three two-centred arched windows on the first floor. The central window is larger and has Y-tracery.
The former barn attached to the north includes a square window at ground floor on the re-entrant side, and a rectangular window on the first floor of the gable wall.
Inside the south bay of the original farmhouse, there are two lateral beams, a rear partition wall made of muntin-and-plank construction, and a large 18th-century rectangular fireplace with a corbelled lintel and moulded surround, including a moulded false keystone. To the right of the fireplace is a square spice cupboard with a fielded panel bearing the incised letters "D / R R / 1711." Above the cupboard is a room with a ceiling. This room has a muntin-and-plank enclosure of a former smoke-hood. The former barn to the south is now incorporated at first-floor level into the house.
Local climate
Rue Crofts and Attached Barn to North sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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