Hard Cragg House

Hard Cragg House is a house, likely dating from the mid-18th century, with later alterations. It is built of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The house is two storeys high and has seven bays, with the end two bays set back and lower in height. The windows are sash windows, some with horns. On the ground floor, the first two bays have paired sashes, followed by a bay window with a tripartite sash. Quoins mark the corners, and the fourth and fifth bays have hipped roofs. The first floor windows to the first five bays are small, while the sixth and seventh bays have sashes with single glazing bars. A flat, bracketed canopy shelters the entrance, which is located in the sixth bay. There are three gable-end stacks. The rear of the house is similar in style and includes a gabled wing. A left return has an entrance and a plaque dated 1857, featuring a verse and name: William Field. The interior features ovolo beams, a bee-hive bread oven, and a staircase with fluted newels, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail. The house was the home of W. Field, a significant figure in the development of local administration in 19th-century Cartmel, known as the Father of Cartmel.