Numbers 3 and 5 Town Head is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.
Numbers 3 and 5 Town Head
- WRENN ID
- tired-dormer-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Numbers 3 and 5 Town Head, North Street, Silsden
- OS grid reference
- SE 044 468
- Coordinates
- 53.91785, -1.93393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 3 and 5 Town Head is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. It is dated 1696 and features hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has a three-cell, direct-entry plan with a single-storey outshut at the rear. The structure has quoins and is adorned with double-chamfered mullioned windows. The ground floor windows have hoodmoulds with decorative stops, while the first-floor windows have nearly square reveals.
The first cell includes three-light windows on both floors. The second cell features an eight-light window with a king-mullion and a four-light window above it. There is a doorway with composite jambs and a Tudor-arched lintel that has a decorative date inscription, surrounded by a chamfered frame. Above this doorway is a small circular chamfered window. The third cell, which is No. 5, has an inserted doorway with monolithic jambs and four-light windows, with a five-light window above. The left gable is coped and has a shaped kneeler, and there are two stacks on the ridge.
At the rear, the building has a three-light and a two-light chamfered mullioned window on the first floor of the third cell. The outshut features a doorway with tie-stone jambs and a chamfered surround set into the side wall, along with a three-light chamfered mullioned window next to a small chamfered light. The left-hand return wall has a five-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould that has a heart-shaped stop, and there are three-light windows above.
Inside, the housebody contains stop-chamfered spine beams and an original oak-panelled cupboard.
Local climate
Numbers 3 and 5 Town Head 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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