Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Commercial, public house.

Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

WRENN ID
hidden-balcony-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westmorland and Furness
Constituency
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1987
Type
Commercial, public house
Address
Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn, CA10 3ST
OS grid reference
NY 617 051
Coordinates
54.44014, -2.59106
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Town Head Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are a farmhouse and barn complex. The house is dated 1705, featuring the initials G. P. and E. P. on a lintel above the porch. The house was extended, and the barn was added later in the 18th century, with further additions and alterations made over time. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with quoins, while the farmyard elevation is pebble-dashed and the other elevation is colour-washed. The roofs are covered with graduated slate.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a total of four bays, arranged as three bays on the left and one bay on the right. The farmyard elevation, which was originally the rear of the house, features a central wing with a part-glazed inner door leading to the porch on the left and a 20th-century lean-to outbuilding on the right. There are small casement windows on each floor of the wing on the left-hand return. The original front of the house has a 20th-century casement window in its original surround, a blocked mullioned window, a 19th-century sash window, and another 19th-century casement window, all with glazing bars. A continuous hoodmould runs above the two right-hand bays, and there are three 20th-century casements above.

The single-bay barn has a segment-headed plank wagon door facing the farmyard, with an outshut to the right and a small door at the rear. There is a rendered mid-chimney and a capped, corbelled end chimney on the wing. The taller barn and the 20th-century outbuildings adjoining are not of interest.

Local climate

Town Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 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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