Townhead Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Townhead Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-spindle-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townhead Farmhouse, Long Preston, North Yorkshire, YO32 9FT
- OS grid reference
- SD 829 586
- Coordinates
- 54.02329, -2.26128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townhead Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of slobbered rubble with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The central entrance features a chamfered surround and a glazed door from around 1960. On the ground floor, there are two double chamfered three-light cavetto mullioned windows, which include two-pane casements and fixed lights. The upper floor has a central single light sash window with glazing bars, flanked by two two-light windows that have flat faced mullions and two-pane casements. To the left of the house, there is a late 19th-century one bay extension that has a continuous outshut roof. The right-hand gable end has a ridge stack, as does the former left-hand gable.
Local climate
Townhead Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 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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- 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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