The 1881 census shows a 30 year old Thomas Heads and wife Jane A. Heads (with nephew William J Heads, father William Peacock and farm servants Elizabeth Robinson and Joseph Oliver) living in Shittlehope Burn, his occupation is described as a farmer of 42 acres employing 2 servants.
I can only surmise that things didn't go well, as a newspaper article in December 1884 has the farm up for let and an April 1885 article reveals that Thomas Heads is leaving Shittlehope Burn farm and is disposing of his stock.
Edited to add: The farm is up for sale in 1864, the farmhouse is occupied by a Mr Curry and a Thomas Emmerson (the latter also the tenant for the associated meadow / woodland called Wright's Field and Woody Bank), in addition there is a further cottage and a meadow called Meadowfield with tenants William Wilkinson and Thomas Emmerson and a right of way onto Shittlehope Common.
