Croft House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1984. House, cottage.
Croft House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lancet-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1984
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Croft House, High House Road, St. Bees
- OS grid reference
- NX 973 119
- Coordinates
- 54.49215, -3.58559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft House is a house and cottage that has been combined into a single residence. It dates from the 18th century and has undergone later alterations. The exterior features incised stucco and a graduated slate roof with stone copings and kneelers, along with stone chimneys at the mid and end sections. The building is two storeys high and consists of four bays. The entrance includes a panelled door set within an architrave, topped by a pedimented doorcase supported by Tuscan columns. To the left of the door is a sash window, while the extreme left and right have paired sashes with a wooden mullion. There are four additional sash windows above, all featuring glazing bars within their architraves. A 20th-century single-storey extension is attached, while the east end of the building is not of particular interest.
Local climate
Croft House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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