Townhead is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Farmhouse.
Townhead
- WRENN ID
- buried-lantern-shade
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NY 525 473
- Coordinates
- 54.81848, -2.73921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townhead is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century. It features rendered walls on a plinth with painted raised quoins and a graduated slate roof, along with rendered chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The entrance includes a six-panel door with a patterned fanlight, set in a pilaster surround, topped with a moulded cornice and a triangular moulded pediment. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed by raised painted stone surrounds. To the right, there is a lower two-storey, single bay that connects to an L-shaped wing, which is styled similarly to the main house and has sandstone rubble walls. The entrance to this wing features an alternate block surround and a keyed entablature, with a panel for the date that appears blank.
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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