Townsend is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. House.
Townsend
- WRENN ID
- silver-gateway-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Townsend, Dunsham Lane, Wayford
- OS grid reference
- ST 407 067
- Coordinates
- 50.85737, -2.84283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend is a detached house dating from the early 19th century. It is built from roughly cut and squared ham stone and features a double Roman clay tiled roof with high stepped coped gables that suggest it may have originally had thatch. The house has brick end chimney stacks and is two storeys high with three bays. The windows are horizontal-bar casements, with three-light windows in the outer bays and a two-light window in the upper centre bay. The ground floor windows have keystoned lintels. In the lower bay two, there is a six-panel door with toplights set in a moulded frame, topped by a timber hood supported by wrought-iron brackets. The east gable has a rectangular-leaded casement, while the west gable features a nine-pane sash window and a three-light casement. There is a single-storey extension at the rear, in the south-east corner. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Townsend receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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