Town Head Farmhouse

Town Head Farmhouse is a mid-17th century farmhouse that was reroofed in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed gritstone and features a grey slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a two-storey porch located between the first and second bays, and an additional bay added to the left. The corners of the building are marked by quoins.

The porch has a board door set in a chamfered quoined surround, and the lintel arch may have been recut. The windows throughout the house are recessed and have chamfered mullions, with configurations of three, five, and five lights on the ground floor beneath a continuous dripmould, and four, three with a hoodmould (above the porch), four, and four lights on the first floor. The right gable has coping, and there is a ridge stack above the porch as well as at each end of the building. The eaves are decorated with plaster and pebbles.

The added bay to the left features 20th-century double doors and a square loading door above the gable coping. On the left return, there is a blocked small chamfered opening on the ground floor and a blocked arch at the gable. Although the interior was not inspected during the resurvey, it has been reported to contain an arched fireplace.

This farmhouse is one of those built shortly after the sale of freeholds in the village by the Earl of Cumberland, George Clifford, in 1604. The left bay may have originally served as a farm building, but the quoins indicate the original house's structure. The decorated band below the eaves, featuring chevron and semicircle motifs, is an unusual detail likely dating from the reroofing. Formerly known as Rathmell's farm, it is currently owned by the Trustees of the Fountaine Hospital in Linton.