Principal Mill Building at Folly Hall Mill is a Grade II* listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. Mill. 4 related planning applications.

Principal Mill Building at Folly Hall Mill

WRENN ID
calm-chalk-mist
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Kirklees
Constituency
Huddersfield MP: Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Mill
Address
Principal Mill Building at Folly Hall Mill, HD1 3LT
OS grid reference
SE 141 159
Coordinates
53.64025, -1.787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The principal mill building at Folly Hall Mill is an early 19th-century structure with an ashlar front and a pitched slate roof. It stands five storeys tall with attics and features a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. The building has 17 ranges of industrial windows, all with glazing bars. The two end ranges include round-arched windows topped with boldly moulded pediments. The central three ranges are also topped by a pediment, which contains a five-light Venetian window with glazing bars, where the outer two lights are lower than the center lights. The side elevations each have five window ranges.

Local climate

Principal Mill Building at Folly Hall Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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