Townhead is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Townhead
- WRENN ID
- half-rood-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townhead, Ainstable, CA8 9DH
- OS grid reference
- NY 562 490
- Coordinates
- 54.83445, -2.68248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townhead is a farmhouse dating to 1702, located in Newbiggin, near Ainstable. It has painted rendered walls with a large footing of stones, and a slate roof with a central stone chimney stack and brick chimney stacks at each end. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. A 20th-century glazed door is set within a chamfered surround with an inscribed entablature and hood mould. The ground floor features three-pane sash windows with painted stone surrounds, while the windows above are two-pane sashes with similar surrounds. A 19th-century L-shaped extension to the rear is constructed of dressed red sandstone with a graduated Welsh slate roof and features two-pane sash windows and a 20th-century glazed porch.
Local climate
Townhead sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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 — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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