The Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. House.
The Croft
- WRENN ID
- half-pier-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Croft, Hethersgill
- OS grid reference
- NY 477 671
- Coordinates
- 54.99609, -2.81857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Croft is a house dating from the late 18th century. It features coursed red sandstone rubble walls with dressed quoins and has a 20th-century tile roof with ashlar chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The entrance includes an 8-panel door with a patterned fanlight set in a plain stone surround. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are also framed by plain stone surrounds. The listing does not include the brick extension to the left or the garage extension to the right.
Local climate
The Croft sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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