Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusted-corner-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farmhouse, Skilgate, TA4 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 988 272
- Coordinates
- 51.0357, -3.44436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located in Skilgate Village. The building features roughcast, likely over rubble, with slate roofs and brick stacks on the left gable end and the right side of a lower, independently roofed service wing. The layout consists of two main cells and a two-cell service end. It stands two storeys high with a symmetrical facade of two bays on each side. The left side has 16-pane sash windows, while the entrance is located in the right-hand corner at the junction with the service wing, featuring a flush panel door and a projecting roughcast flat roof porch. The right side has two-light, many-paned casements and a central plank door. The left return gable end is unlit. This farmhouse is notable for being an unaltered example of early 19th-century architecture in a village context.
Local climate
Townsend Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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