5, Townhead is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
5, Townhead
- WRENN ID
- proud-pedestal-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Townhead, Eggleston
- OS grid reference
- NZ 001 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60916, -1.99956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Townhead is a house dated 1702, indicated by the initials I.S. on the door lintel. The building features coursed squared sandstone with a boulder plinth, quoins, and painted ashlar dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof. It has two storeys and two bays. The entrance is a partly glazed door on the right, which is set under a lintel that has a patterned recessed panel displaying the date, initials, and a patera. To the left, there is a 20th-century three-light window with an inserted lintel and sill. The first floor has small square two-light windows in plain stone surrounds. There is a remnant of a thatch-roof dripstone beside the right window, and a change in masonry can be seen above the windows. The roof features a chimney at the left end. The left return of the house shows a small window to the right, which has deep reveals. The eaves were raised and the roof was renewed in the 19th century.
Local climate
5, Townhead sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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