Old Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Old Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-cobalt-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Townsend Farmhouse, Bishops Cannings, SN10 3NE
- OS grid reference
- SU 051 636
- Coordinates
- 51.37156, -1.92691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Townsend Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located in Bishops Cannings. It features a rendered and painted stone facade with a brick structure and a slate roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and consists of three bays. It has a central through hall and a rear wing on the right bay, creating an 'L' plan, along with later lean-to structures against the front block.
The farmhouse has a central gabled porch made of stone, which includes a moulded outer opening and a reset six-panelled inner door. There is a high plinth and a stone dripmould. The windows on the ground and first floors are stone ovolo moulded three-light windows, although the left ground floor window has been replaced with timber. The windows on the side elevation feature a slight hollow chamfer and label moulds with square terminals at the dropped ends. The roof is hipped and includes two gabled and leaded dormers. Flues from the front reception rooms on either side of the hall converge at a central brick stack. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Old Townsend Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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