Town End Farmhouse 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.
Town End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-pillar-ebony
- 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
- Town End Farmhouse, Glassonby, CA10 1HY
- OS grid reference
- NY 609 396
- Coordinates
- 54.7502, -2.60867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town End Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1762, inscribed with the names Thomas and Ann Morton above the entrance. It is constructed of red sandstone coursed rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with rebuilt stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance includes a four-panel top glazed door with a chamfered stone surround, an inscribed panel in the frieze, and a moulded cornice. The 19th-century windows are two-pane sash windows with plain painted stone surrounds. At the rear, there are early 19th-century extensions that have similar stonework, plank doors, and sash windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
Town End Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- 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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