Town Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Town Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-latch-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Town Head Farmhouse, Long Marton, CA16 6BN
- OS grid reference
- NY 665 248
- Coordinates
- 54.61731, -2.51943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Head Farmhouse is a house dated 1820 that incorporates an earlier building. The front is made of ashlar stone with rusticated quoins and features bands at the first floor and eaves, all set on a moulded plinth. The sides and rear are constructed from coursed, squared rubble. The roof is covered with graduated slate and has corniced stone chimneys at both ends.
The house has a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay front with a central part-glazed door and a fanlight, all framed by a segmentally pedimented architrave. The carved tympanum above the door features a central two-handled vase with lilies and is dated 1820. An earlier house adjoins the west end of the farmhouse, which is pebble-dashed rubble on a plinth and also has a graduated slate roof. The front of the earlier house is set back and has three-light windows on the ground floor and two-light windows on the first floor, both with mullions.
Local climate
Town Head Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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