Croft House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Croft House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-flue-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Croft House, Blennerhasset and Torpenhow, CA7 1HT
- OS grid reference
- NY 202 396
- Coordinates
- 54.74583, -3.24004
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft House is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features painted stucco walls, an eaves cornice, and V-jointed quoins, all beneath a graduated greenslate roof with stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance consists of a four-panel door beneath a radial fanlight, framed by a pilastered surround with a keyed arch. The windows are sash style, with glazing bars set in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Croft House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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