Townsend Farmhouse

Townsend Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from approximately the 1840s, constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings. It incorporates a 17th-century timber-frame rear wing. The main range has a concrete pantile roof, hipped at the corners, with two stacks along the ridges of the rear wings. The front of the farmhouse is formal, two stories in height, with rusticated quoins, ashlar lintels and sills to the windows, and a central enclosed porch built with angle pilasters and an arched entry featuring a keystone. The windows are 16-pane sashes, with a pair of casement windows with margin-lights on the first floor in the centre of the facade. The north end wall has similar quoins and 16-pane sashes on both floors. The red brick rear wing to the left, also dating from approximately the 1840s, features similar 16-pane sashes on each floor. To the right of this wing is a timber-frame section over a rendered ground floor, with a 16-pane sash and a smaller tripartite sash window (3:9:3 panes) on each floor. The timber framing includes ogee-curved angle braces. This section has a hipped roof at the west end and a lean-to addition to the west. A shorter, parallel rear wing extends southwest.