Townsend Farmhouse

House. Built around 1730, the front of the house was redesigned and extended by one bay to the left of a timber-framed structure dating back to around 1600. The construction is primarily red and vitreous brick with band courses, red brick quoins, and window surrounds. The left bays feature moulded brick plinths and eaves, while the right bay has a coursed rubble stone plinth. The roof is covered in old tiles, and there are brick chimneys at the rear. The main two-story portion, with an attic, has two slightly asymmetrical cross-wings, each of one bay, flanking a narrow central bay. A lower one-story bay with an attic is located at the rear.

The front facade has 3-pane sash windows with chequered segmental heads. There are blind and painted round windows in the gables of the attic. A central 6-panel door, top-lit, is set within a trellis porch. The left side has three blind windows on the first floor, while the right side has a single bay of sash windows. Barred wooden casements are present on the rear wing.

Inside, the central bay houses a staircase dating from the 1730s, notable for its variety of turned balusters, altered newel posts, and handrail. A ground floor parlor on the left side features a wooden round-headed china cupboard with serpentine shelves. The ground floor room on the right contains a large bressumer, likely concealing a chimney dating back to around 1600. The ceiling of the kitchen corridor displays a painted dial from a former weathervane. The rear wing showcases stop-chamfered spine beams and joists.

An upper chamber on the left side has early 18th-century panelling, including a corner bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel. An early 18th-century panelled wall in the right upper chamber incorporates a dado rail, a central moulded wooden firesurround, an overmantel, a closet door to the right, and a door to the left opening onto a narrow winder staircase to the right to the attic. A closet on the first floor behind the staircase contains a one-meter square wall painting designed to resemble a fireplace overmantel, depicting an idealized landscape of a local view with Jacobite emblems, potentially two roses representing the Old and Young Pretenders. An almanac from the 1730s found near the roof chimney may indicate the date of the major refurbishment of the house.