Croft House Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. Farmhouse, barn.
Croft House Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns
- WRENN ID
- iron-railing-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 238 389
- Coordinates
- 54.73963, -3.1847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft House Farmhouse and the adjoining barns date from the mid-18th century. The farmhouse features roughcast walls beneath a graduated greenslate roof that is hipped to the left, along with roughcast chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has two bays, with an L-shaped barn and dairy to the left under a common roof, and a lower barn to the right. The building includes a 20th-century door and sash windows with glazing bars; the windows on the right are double and all are set in painted stone surrounds. The barn to the right has a through archway with a casement window above it. The barns have plank doors and loft doors at the rear. This property is included for its group value with Standingstone Cottage and Eardon Cottage.
Local climate
Croft House Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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