Townhead Farm is a Grade C listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 October 2007. Farmhouse, steading.
Townhead Farm
- WRENN ID
- unlit-corbel-poplar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Constituency
- Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2007
- Type
- Farmhouse, steading
- OS grid reference
- NS 357 285
- Coordinates
- 55.52275, -4.60411
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Townhead Farm is a traditional farmhouse, likely built in the early 19th century, that stands two stories tall with three bays. It has been divided into flats and features a 20th century forestair at the rear. The building is constructed from random sandstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings and includes an eaves course.
Attached to the north of the farmhouse is a steading range. There is also a detached single storey and attic range to the north, which contains stables at the eastern end and what was presumably a former threshing barn at the western end.
A conical-roofed circular horsemill is attached to the north side of the stable range. It has five wide openings, currently fitted with 20th century cast-iron gates. Inside the horsemill, there is an original timber truss.
The farmhouse features non-traditional uPVC windows. It has ashlar-coped skews and coped sandstone ashlar gablehead stacks, with red clay cans. The roofs are covered with grey slate.
Local climate
Townhead Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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