Townend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1983. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Townend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-loft-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townend Cottage, the Town, Carsington
- OS grid reference
- SK 251 534
- Coordinates
- 53.07776, -1.62666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townend Cottage is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which was refashioned in the 19th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with quoins and gritstone dressings. The roof is made of graduated slate and features moulded stone copings and kneelers on the gables on the east side, along with a projecting eaves band. The building has brick gable end and ridge stacks. Originally two bays, it was extended to three bays in the 19th century. The cottage has two storeys plus attics.
The windows include two small-paned casements that were inserted into shallower, originally mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. On the west side, there is a doorcase featuring a massive ashlar, chamfered lintel and quoins, topped with a hoodmould, leading to a glazed panelled door. Above this door, a 19th-century window has been inserted into an earlier window, alongside a three-light chamfered mullion window with small-paned casements. A 19th-century addition includes a glazed door with casements above. Additionally, there is an attached garden wall made of limestone rubble, which has dressed coping, quoins, and gatepiers.
Local climate
Townend Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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