Townend Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding Now Part of House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Townend Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding Now Part of House
- WRENN ID
- third-parapet-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townend Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding Now Part of House, Beetham, LA6 1PB
- OS grid reference
- SD 534 807
- Coordinates
- 54.22023, -2.71614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century farmhouse with a later attached outbuilding, now incorporated into a larger house. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble with limestone dressings, and has been colour-washed. It has a greenslate roof with stone ridge, copings, and kneelers. The original farmhouse has two storeys and three windows, featuring 19th-century sash windows with vertical glazing bars. A central, wide-gabled porch provides cover for an 8-panelled door. There are chimneys at each end of the building. The attached outbuilding has waggon doors within a segmental-arched opening defined by limestone voussoirs, along with a boarded door to the left and a 20th-century door to the left of that. A top-glazed door is located to the right of the waggon doors, all under dressed limestone lintels. The upper floor of the outbuilding has three 20th-century windows, and a finial sits atop the right-hand gable. The outbuilding is included in the listing due to its group value.
Local climate
Townend Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding Now Part of House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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