Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- scarred-corridor-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Townsend Farmhouse, Pit Hill Lane, Moorlinch, TA7 9BT
- OS grid reference
- ST 397 366
- Coordinates
- 51.12604, -2.86166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a 17th-century core and 18th-century exterior features. The exterior is roughcast, with a thatched roof and a brick and rendered stack. The farmhouse is single-storey and attic with three bays on the ground floor. It features sash windows in flush frames, with glazing bars; the ground-floor windows are of the Yorkshire type, and a first-floor window has a bonnet hood. A further first-floor window is a two-light casement also under a bonnet hood. A plank door is located between the second and third bays, and is set within a 19th-century gabled porch.
Local climate
Townsend Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 transactions since 1997
- 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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