Cottage to the North of Townend Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Cottage.
Cottage to the North of Townend Farm
- WRENN ID
- outer-arch-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- SK 265 501
- Coordinates
- 53.04802, -1.60613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage that was altered in the mid-19th century, located to the north of Townend Farm on Gorsey Lane in the parish of Kirk Ireton. The building is constructed from coursed gritstone, with some areas rendered. It features a plain tiled roof that has a brick ridge stack and gable end stacks. The north facade includes 19th-century casement windows with large flat stone lintels above them, as well as a 19th-century timber porch. On the east gable, there is a 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window with a dripmould.
Local climate
Cottage to the North of Townend Farm receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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