Town Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Town Head Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ruined-lancet-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Town Head Farmhouse, Houghton, Stanwix Rural
OS grid reference
NY 408 599
Coordinates
54.9308, -2.92465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the mid-18th century. It features English garden wall bond brickwork, a slate roof, and brick chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays. There are plain stone surrounds to two entrances, with the main entrance featuring a six-panel door topped by a glazed fanlight. The window sashes include glazing bars, with flat brick arches on the ground floor and slightly rounded brick arches on the upper floor. The right gable has only one kneeler. The listing does not include the other farm buildings.

Local climate

Town Head Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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