Folly Farmhouse and barn is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. A Late 18th century Farmhouse, barn.
Folly Farmhouse and barn
- WRENN ID
- standing-basalt-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Period
- Late 18th century
- Address
- Folly Farmhouse and barn, Cop Hill Side
- OS grid reference
- SE 057 140
- Coordinates
- 53.62251, -1.91412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farmhouse and barn, dating from the late 18th century, was originally two houses and a barn. The building is rendered and features a pitched stone slate roof, which has been re-roofed, with a coped gable on the east side and a large ball and stalk finial on the west. It has moulded footstones and stands two storeys high.
On the southwest elevation of the cottages, the ground floor has two eight-light stone mullioned windows with a central king mullion, while the first floor also has two eight-light stone mullioned windows with a central king mullion.
The former barn has a large central doorway with a segmental arched head, which is partially blocked to create a small doorway and two single lights. There is one two-light stone mullioned window on each side of the doorway. On the first floor, there are two two-light stone mullioned windows and one single light. The east gable features one three-light stone mullioned window on the first floor.
Local climate
Folly Farmhouse and barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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