Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1953. Farmhouse.

Townsend Farmhouse

WRENN ID
cold-solder-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1953
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Townsend Farmhouse, East Street, Pembridge
OS grid reference
SO 393 581
Coordinates
52.21824, -2.88897
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Townsend Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with 20th-century additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with sections of painted brick and plaster infill set on a sandstone rubble plinth, topped by a tiled roof. The building consists of two framed bays and has a rear lateral stack, with additional structures added to the back. The entrance is located on the north front. It is a single-storey building with an attic, which includes a small gabled dormer window with a two-light window on the left side. The ground floor has one two-light casement window to the left and two similar windows to the right of a ledged door that is sheltered by a gabled canopy.

Local climate

Townsend Farmhouse 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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