Townend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1985. Farmhouse.
Townend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- late-brick-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townend Farmhouse, Wetton, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 110 554
- Coordinates
- 53.09657, -1.83622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townend Farmhouse is an 18th-century house constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a clay tile roof and featuring squared and coursed rubble integral end stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-room main range with a rear wing. It stands two storeys high and includes two mullioned windows, all of which are two-light windows with chamfered mullions and rebated surrounds that contain casements. To the right of the centre, there is a half-glazed door with a bracketed hood.
Local climate
Townend Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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