Townsend Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Townsend Cottages
- WRENN ID
- young-porch-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Townsend Cottages, 1 and 2, Carhampton, TA24 6NH
- OS grid reference
- ST 005 427
- Coordinates
- 51.17567, -3.42423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of semi-detached cottages dating from the 18th century, located in Carhampton village. The cottages are constructed from red sandstone and lias random rubble, with a clay tile roof, overhanging eaves, and stone stacks to the gable ends. The plan is based on a single-cell design.
The cottages are two storeys high and four bays wide. The first floor has two-light leaded iron casements, with one renewed and one retaining quadrant stays. The ground floor has voussoirs to the openings, with three-light casements in the outer bays. One ground floor casement has quadrant stays. The center two bays feature segmental leaded plank doors, with inserted lights.
The cottages form part of a group with a range of farm buildings to the north-east, which are part of Townsend Farm.
Local climate
Townsend Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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