Townhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Townhead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scattered-cinder-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Townhead Farmhouse, North Street, Silsden, BD20 9PP
- OS grid reference
- SE 045 469
- Coordinates
- 53.91856, -1.93255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townhead Farmhouse is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with some alterations made in the early 20th century. It is constructed of thin coursed rubble with dressed quoins and features a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a two-cell, end baffle-entry plan, with a single-storey outshut at the rear of the second cell.
On the first floor, there are three windows. To the left, there is a six-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould that has straight returns. Next to it is a two-light, early 20th-century flat-faced mullioned window with four-paned sashes. The doorway on the right-hand end has composite jambs and a broad chamfered surround. The first floor also features two windows with chamfered surrounds and an additional stack on the right-hand ridge. Another stack is located on the left, extruded from the gable, and is made of ashlar with a cyma-moulded cornice. At the rear, there is a small chamfered window behind the first cell.
Inside, the westernmost room contains a fine Tudor-arched fireplace with carved spandrels and a chamfered surround.
Local climate
Townhead Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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