Folly Approximately 450 Metres West North West of Tower Cottage at Junction of Paths in Deffer Woods Just Within the Parish Boundary is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1987. A Victorian Folly.

Folly Approximately 450 Metres West North West of Tower Cottage at Junction of Paths in Deffer Woods Just Within the Parish Boundary

WRENN ID
solitary-finial-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 November 1987
Type
Folly
Period
Victorian
OS grid reference
SE 262 085
Coordinates
53.57327, -1.60506
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This folly, located approximately 450 metres west-north-west of Tower Cottage at the junction of paths in Deffer Woods, dates from the early to mid 19th century. It features a coursed squared rubble outer wall and a dressed stone inner wall arranged in reducing courses. The building has a conical roof covered with tiles, with stone slate at the lower courses. It is circular in shape, with the front open and supported by four yew trunks set on simple stone footings. The remains of a herringbone brickwork floor can still be seen, along with a stone verge. The semi-circular back wall originally had rounded brickwork at the ends, but the left side is now rendered and the right side is missing. This folly is marked on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map.

Local climate

Folly Approximately 450 Metres West North West of Tower Cottage at Junction of Paths in Deffer Woods Just Within the Parish Boundary receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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