Croft House and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, barn. 6 related planning applications.
Croft House and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- tenth-iron-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Croft House and Adjoining Barn, CA14 4TP
- OS grid reference
- NY 077 241
- Coordinates
- 54.60431, -3.42948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft House and an adjoining barn date from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century, and include a barn. The farmhouse has roughcast painted walls and a roof of graduated greenslate, with 19th-century rendered chimney stacks. The barn is constructed of mixed sandstone rubble with a graduated greenslate roof. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three bays, with a lower section incorporating the barn to the left. It features sash windows set in painted stone surrounds. A projecting, stepped chimney stack is visible on the right return wall. The barn has plank double doors, a pent roof extension to the left, and plank doors to the rear set within painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Croft House and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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