Townend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Farmhouse.
Townend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- floating-kitchen-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townend Farmhouse, 14, High Street, Great Missenden
- OS grid reference
- SP 893 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70506, -0.70883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townend Farmhouse is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of High Street in Great Missenden. It is constructed of red brick and features a hipped slate roof with projecting eaves. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a central entrance with a six-flush panel door and a four-pane fanlight above. On either side of the door, there are four-pane double-hung sash windows, with two similar windows above and a central three-pane sash window. All openings are adorned with flat gauged brick arches. A projecting stack is located on the north flank wall.
Local climate
Townend Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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