Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-quoin-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Folly Cottage, Main Street, Heydour
- OS grid reference
- TF 002 390
- Coordinates
- 52.93958, -0.50913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features ashlar quoins, one raised stone coped gable, and a hip roof covered with pantiles. The front of the cottage has two storeys and four bays. The off-centre entrance consists of a plain 20th-century door, which is flanked by two 20th-century two-light timber casements; one has a timber lintel, while the other has a plain stone lintel. To the left, there is an additional single-light casement. On the upper floor, there are two two-light casements set into the eaves. The cottage is included in the listing for its group value only.
Local climate
Folly Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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