Townsend Farmhouse and Donkey Wheel House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1978. Farmhouse.
Townsend Farmhouse and Donkey Wheel House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-steel-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farmhouse and Donkey Wheel House, High Street, St. Margaret's at Cliffe
- OS grid reference
- TR 357 449
- Coordinates
- 51.1551, 1.37001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farmhouse and Donkey Wheel House is a house dating from the early 18th century, which was refaced in the mid-19th century. The building is rendered and has a plain tiled roof. It stands two storeys high on a plinth, featuring a rusticated ground floor, a moulded plat band, and a dentillated cornice with a parapet above the hipped roof, which has a stack at the rear left.
The façade includes two canted two-storey bays with a central sash window, three sashes to the right on the first floor, and a central glazed double door between the bays, topped with a rectangular fanlight and a cornice supported by brackets on a raised entablature. To the right, there is a single-storey wing that carries the rustication and plat band across, featuring a sash window and a six-panelled door.
The rear wings date from the 20th century and around 1700. The end section of the building originally housed a donkey treadwheel, which included a horizontal shaft.
Local climate
Townsend Farmhouse and Donkey Wheel House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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