Town End Dairy Farmhouse and Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1970. A C18 Farmhouse.
Town End Dairy Farmhouse and Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- iron-attic-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Town End Dairy Farmhouse and Outbuilding, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 359 981
- Coordinates
- 54.37447, -2.98823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town End Dairy Farmhouse and outbuilding is a farmhouse, probably from the 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof. The building is in a T-plan layout and has two storeys. The north wing consists of three bays and features a lean-to outhouse at the end. The west facade includes a dripcourse, and the windows are sashed with glazing bars; the ground floor has paired sashes, while the first floor has windows with vertical glazing bars only. The entrance features a six-panel door, and there is a gable-end stack. The east facade has casement windows and a stair window, with an adjacent entrance that has a wide-boarded door in a lean-to porch.
The outhouse has a three-light unglazed wooden-mullioned window on the north side. The west wing has a two-bay north facade and a three-bay south facade, with a two-bay outbuilding to the west. The north facade of the outbuilding has a small-paned casement in the angle and windows with tripartite sashes with glazing bars in the second bay. There are two entrances to the outbuilding, which includes cow house partitions at the west end. The south facade features sashed windows, with paired windows in the first bay of the first floor and others being tripartite; the end bay is higher and has gable-end stacks. There is a cross-axial stack at the end of the house part, along with a barn entrance and low blocked openings with timber lintels to the left. The interior includes a stair with turned balusters and square newels, as well as a small cupboard with a door.
Local climate
Town End Dairy Farmhouse and Outbuilding sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,530 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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