Barn at Townend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. Barn.
Barn at Townend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-tower-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Townend Farmhouse, High Street, Great Missenden
- OS grid reference
- SP 892 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70485, -0.70943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at Townend Farmhouse is an 18th-century structure built with a timber frame and covered in weatherboarding, topped with a corrugated iron roof. Inside, it features four bays, with slightly curved braces connecting the posts to the tie beams, curved queen posts, and a single purlin roof supported by curved windbraces.
Local climate
Barn at 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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