Croft House and Adjacent Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House, shop.
Croft House and Adjacent Shop
- WRENN ID
- eastward-spandrel-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Croft House and Adjacent Shop, Market Street, Kirkby Stephen
- OS grid reference
- NY 774 086
- Coordinates
- 54.47311, -2.34899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croft House and the adjacent shop, previously listed as Croft House/premises occupied by Brown, butchers, is part of a large house that has been subdivided, with other parts listed separately. The building dates from 1789 and 1826, as indicated on the rear. It features incised stucco with chamfered quoins at either end and a graduated slate roof with stone chimneys at the mid and end. The early 19th-century front has seen later alterations and consists of three storeys with a total of seven bays.
At the north end, there are cast-iron railings and two doors positioned side by side. The left-hand door is adorned with a projecting Tuscan porch, flanking lights, and a rectangular fanlight. Each upper floor has two sash windows, with 12 panes on the first floor and 9 panes on the top floor. The hall contains some re-used 18th-century panelling. The south end of the property features a projecting shop window, recessed doors, one 16-paned sash window, and one 8-paned sash window. The first floor has four 12-paned sashes, while the top floor displays four trompe l'oeil 'windows'. The building also has first-floor bands and a moulded cornice supported by paired block corbels.
Local climate
Croft House and Adjacent Shop sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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