Town Head House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Town Head House
- WRENN ID
- patient-brass-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Town Head House, Carlton Town, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 062 845
- Coordinates
- 54.25644, -1.90609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head House is a farmhouse dated 1714, with a later 18th-century addition. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a double-depth plan, with the rear range being the later addition. There are two first-floor windows and quoins at the corners. The central entrance has a 20th-century part-glazed door set in a chamfered quoined surround, with a lintel that is carved with a shield displaying the raised characters "H M 1714".
The windows are double-chamfered mullion types, with alterations on the ground floor: there is a two-light window that was formerly four-light to the left, and a two-light window that was also formerly four-light but has been increased in height to the right. The first floor has a three-light window. The roof is a two-span design with kneelers and ashlar copings, and there are end stacks on the front range.
On the rear, the ground floor features a surround of a two-light double-chamfered mullion window and shaped kneelers. The right return of the front range has a double-chamfered surround for a single-light ground-floor window.
Local climate
Town Head House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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