Townsend Farmhouse,The Wool Barn Approximately 10 Metres North West of the Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. Barn.

Townsend Farmhouse,The Wool Barn Approximately 10 Metres North West of the Farmhouse

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 February 1977
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
SP 975 893
Coordinates
52.49322, -0.56498
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Townsend Farmhouse, The Wool Barn is a barn and cartshed located approximately 10 meters northwest of the farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with an ashlar gable end and a concrete tile roof. The ground floor serves as a cart shed, while the first floor contains a loft.

The elevation facing the road features a small pair of double doors under a renewed wood lintel on the far left. The right gable has two cart entrances with segmental arch heads and a square stone pier between them. There is a central first-floor door to the barn on the left, which has a similar arch head, along with a smaller door located above in the apex of the gable. The rear elevation includes four square casement openings with wood lintels at the first floor, and there is a plank door on the ground floor far right. The interior is likely to retain its original floor and roof structures and is believed to have been used as a wool barn.

Local climate

Townsend Farmhouse,The Wool Barn Approximately 10 Metres North West of the Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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