Town Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Town Head Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stubborn-chalk-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Town Head Farmhouse, Great Salkeld
OS grid reference
NY 551 368
Coordinates
54.72505, -2.69852
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Head Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features roughcast walls and is topped with a graduated greenslate roof, which includes a banded red sandstone chimney stack. The building has two storeys and consists of four bays. There is an off-centre plank door set within a painted chamfered surround. The windows are two-light and have chamfered stone mullions.

Local climate

Town Head Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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