Folly Farmhouse and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House, barn.
Folly Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- spare-plaster-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Folly Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Belsay
- OS grid reference
- NZ 096 805
- Coordinates
- 55.11939, -1.85056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farmhouse and the attached barn are a house and barn likely built in the early 18th century and altered around 1860. The structure is made of dressed stone with ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features three bays, with a two-storey, two-bay barn attached to the right.
The central entrance has a Victorian panelled door set within a surround that includes pilasters and a roll-moulded cornice. Above the door is a small square Yorkshire sash window in a double-chamfered surround. The other windows are longer six-pane sashes, each set in alternating-block surrounds. The barn has a boarded door to the right and two windows on the first floor, both with double-chamfered surrounds. The roofs are gabled, and the house has corniced end stacks. Notably, the rear wall of the barn has the date 1789 scratched into the lintel.
Local climate
Folly Farmhouse and Attached Barn receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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