Town Head Farmhouse, Garden Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Town Head Farmhouse, Garden Wall and Railings

WRENN ID
salt-roof-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Town Head Farmhouse, Garden Wall and Railings, Rakes Lane, Tissington and Lea Hall, Derbyshire Dales, DE6 1RA
OS grid reference
SK 173 525
Coordinates
53.06958, -1.74255
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century and early 18th century. It is constructed from coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings and features a plain tile roof with stone coped gables and plain kneelers. The building has a brick ridge stack and brick gable end stacks. It stands two and a half storeys high and has five bays on the road elevation.

The right-hand section, between the ridge stack and the north-west gable end, is from the late 17th or early 18th century. The ground floor includes two 2-light square section mullion windows, while above, there are two similar windows with a single light window in between. All windows have 19th-century casements. Below the eaves, there are two small 2-light recessed chamfer mullion windows. The farmhouse has flush quoins.

To the left is a mid-18th-century extension with two bays, featuring raised and chamfered quoins and a moulded eaves cornice. The doorway has a flat stone bracketed hood and a six-panel raised and fielded door with a rectangular overlight. To the left of the door is a plain sash window in a moulded stone surround, with two glazing bar sashes above, also in moulded stone surrounds.

The property is complemented by a drystone garden wall with curved copings and metal railings.

Local climate

Town Head Farmhouse, Garden Wall and Railings receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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