Townhead Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuilding to North-West is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Farmhouse.

Townhead Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuilding to North-West

WRENN ID
dusk-chamber-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 January 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Townhead Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuilding to North-West, Netherwitton
OS grid reference
NZ 132 900
Coordinates
55.20474, -1.79331
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Townhead Farmhouse and the adjacent outbuilding to the north-west is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an outshut and the first western extension likely from the early 18th century. The latter was remodeled and a kitchen block was added in the early 19th century, with a second western extension added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of stone with dressings and has slate roofs.

The south front is divided into three parts: the left section is a two-storey, two-bay area made of squared tooled stone, featuring tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings. It has a six-panel door in the second bay and six-pane sash windows with slightly projecting sills, all set within alternating-block surrounds. The gables are coped, and there are stepped rendered end stacks.

To the left, set back, is a single-storey outbuilding with a reverse-stepped gable. The middle section is a slightly lower two-storey area made of tooled roughly-squared stone, which has a blocked door in the second bay and a 12-pane sash window inserted. The left bay features similar windows with tooled and margined lintels, and there is a stone right end stack. The right section is one and a half storeys high with three bays, built of rubble with roughly-shaped quoins. It has a right 16-pane fixed window in a former door opening, a left 12-pane Yorkshire sash window, and a tiny four-pane stair window. There are two slatted windows beneath the eaves and a 20th-century dormer. The right return displays a reverse-stepped gable above the roof of the adjacent barn.

The rear elevation shows the added kitchen block with Yorkshire sash windows, while the outshut to the left has a Yorkshire sash and older fixed windows. Inside, the eastern section retains heavy transverse ceiling beams, a stair against the former west wall, a stud-and-daub partition at first floor level, and old collar-beam roof trusses. The centre and western sections contain 19th-century fittings, including panelled shutters.

Local climate

Townhead Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuilding to North-West receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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