Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- salt-courtyard-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farmhouse, Carhampton, TA24 6NH
- OS grid reference
- ST 004 428
- Coordinates
- 51.17607, -3.42547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1662, located in Carhampton Village. The building was refenestrated in the early 19th century and reroofed in the late 19th century. It features roughcast over rubble with a slate roof that has overhanging eaves and sprockets. Brick stacks rise from halfway up the eaves at the gable ends. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a long range. It has early 19th-century leaded iron casements, some of which have quadrant stays. The first floor has four 3-light windows, while the ground floor has three 4-light windows. There are two entrances with segmental-headed openings that include fanlights; a panelled door is on the left and a studded door is on the right. A date stone inscribed '1662 IM' is located at the centre below the eaves. The interior has not been seen, but it is assumed that the farmhouse was divided into two dwellings in the early 19th century.
Local climate
Townsend Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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