Townend Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1968. Farmhouse, barn.
Townend Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- riven-lintel-smoke
- 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
- Farmhouse, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 542 232
- Coordinates
- 54.60269, -2.70936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townend Farmhouse and the adjoining barn date from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The farmhouse features mixed limestone rubble walls with painted render, and it has a graduated greenslate roof, with a slight hip in the center due to a higher rear extension. The chimney stacks are banded limestone. The barn also has a graduated greenslate roof that is hipped to the left.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a right-angled two-bay rear extension and a lower left four-bay barn. The house has a central large 20th-century conservatory or porch over a 20th-century door set in a painted stone surround. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed in painted stone surrounds. The extension also features sash windows in painted stone surrounds. The barn includes 20th-century casement windows arranged in two groups of two, positioned under slit vents. There is a left plank door beyond a small pent extension, with a loft opening above. Further left extensions to the barn are not of interest.
Local climate
Townend Farmhouse and Barn Adjoining sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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