diff --git a/LLama/Native/SafeLlamaModelHandle.cs b/LLama/Native/SafeLlamaModelHandle.cs
index 5607ccee..4e3b8044 100644
--- a/LLama/Native/SafeLlamaModelHandle.cs
+++ b/LLama/Native/SafeLlamaModelHandle.cs
@@ -37,5 +37,26 @@ namespace LLama.Native
 
             return new SafeLlamaModelHandle(model_ptr);
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Apply a LoRA adapter to a loaded model
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="lora"></param>
+        /// <param name="modelBase">A path to a higher quality model to use as a base for the layers modified by the
+        /// adapter. Can be NULL to use the current loaded model.</param>
+        /// <param name="threads"></param>
+        /// <exception cref="RuntimeError"></exception>
+        public void ApplyLoraFromFile(string lora, string? modelBase = null, int threads = -1)
+        {
+            var err = NativeApi.llama_model_apply_lora_from_file(
+                this,
+                lora,
+                string.IsNullOrEmpty(modelBase) ? null : modelBase,
+                threads
+            );
+
+            if (err != 0)
+                throw new RuntimeError("Failed to apply lora adapter.");
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/LLama/OldVersion/Utils.cs b/LLama/OldVersion/Utils.cs
index 646ce365..df8adddd 100644
--- a/LLama/OldVersion/Utils.cs
+++ b/LLama/OldVersion/Utils.cs
@@ -35,14 +35,8 @@ namespace LLama.OldVersion
             var ctx = SafeLLamaContextHandle.Create(model, lparams);
 
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(@params.lora_adapter))
-            {
-                int err = NativeApi.llama_model_apply_lora_from_file(model, @params.lora_adapter,
-                    string.IsNullOrEmpty(@params.lora_base) ? null : @params.lora_base, @params.n_threads);
-                if (err != 0)
-                {
-                    throw new RuntimeError("Failed to apply lora adapter.");
-                }
-            }
+                model.ApplyLoraFromFile(@params.lora_adapter, @params.lora_base, @params.n_threads);
+
             return ctx;
         }
 
diff --git a/LLama/Utils.cs b/LLama/Utils.cs
index 8ee084ec..c2dbf7aa 100644
--- a/LLama/Utils.cs
+++ b/LLama/Utils.cs
@@ -48,19 +48,8 @@ namespace LLama
             var ctx = SafeLLamaContextHandle.Create(model, lparams);
 
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(@params.LoraAdapter))
-            {
-                var err = NativeApi.llama_model_apply_lora_from_file(
-                    model,
-                    @params.LoraAdapter,
-                    string.IsNullOrEmpty(@params.LoraBase) ? null : @params.LoraBase,
-                    @params.Threads
-                );
+                model.ApplyLoraFromFile(@params.LoraAdapter, @params.LoraBase, @params.Threads);
 
-                if (err != 0)
-                {
-                    throw new RuntimeError("Failed to apply lora adapter.");
-                }
-            }
             return ctx;
         }