Town Head House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House.
Town Head House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-lancet-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Town Head House, Orton, Westmorland and Furness, CA10 3RG
- OS grid reference
- NY 623 084
- Coordinates
- 54.47007, -2.58195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head House is a house built in 1793, featuring the initials D. & S.H. on the porch, with later alterations. The building is constructed from coursed, squared rubble with quoins on a plinth and has a graduated slate roof with stone copings. It has a symmetrical design with two storeys and three bays. There are steps leading up to a central part-glazed door that is sheltered by a flat-roofed Tuscan porch. The windows are sashes set in stone surrounds, and there is a semicircular-headed stair window with interlaced glazing bars at the rear. A 20th-century up-and-over garage door has been inserted at the rear, and there are stone chimneys at each end of the house.
Local climate
Town Head House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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