Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-minaret-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farmhouse, Town's End, East Quantoxhead, TA5 1EH
- OS grid reference
- ST 137 426
- Coordinates
- 51.17685, -3.23579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with later enlargement in the 19th century. The building features roughcast over cob, a slate roof, and brick stacks at the gable ends and above the entrance. It has a lobby entry plan and an outshut at the rear that has been enlarged to two storeys. The farmhouse is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with three- and four-light octagonal mullioned casement windows, one of which has been renewed and is located to the left of the entrance. The entrance is in the second bay on the right and features a partially glazed door, along with a 20th-century hipped slate roof porch supported by wooden piers. The left return wall was rebuilt in the late 19th century.
Local climate
Townsend Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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