Town Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Town Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- waning-loggia-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Town Head Farmhouse, Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 9RS
- OS grid reference
- NY 333 098
- Coordinates
- 54.4797, -3.0308
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head Farmhouse is a 17th-century building with roughcast over thick stone walls and a flag roof, featuring two round chimneys. It has two storeys. The south front includes a central glazed door, two modern windows on the ground floor, and three above, with a dripstone over the ground floor. The right-hand chimney partly projects on corbels. The building is in an L shape, with the front facing the road, which has a door and a new window on the ground floor, two new windows above, and a round chimney. Old shippons made of dry stone walling adjoin at right angles to the south. Modern additions to the east are excluded from this description. The interior is said to contain a cupboard dated 1702.
Local climate
Town Head Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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