Cooks Folly is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1973. A C17 Cottage.
Cooks Folly
- WRENN ID
- north-groin-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cooks Folly, Leominster
- OS grid reference
- SO 508 554
- Coordinates
- 52.19513, -2.7207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cooks Folly is a former pair of cottages, now a house, dating from the 17th century and restored in the 20th century. The building features a timber-frame structure with render and a stone tile roof. There is a sandstone rubble stack base with a bread-oven and a brick flue on the right, and a rubble end stack with a brick flue on the left. The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range with 20th-century casements, including an inserted light to the left. To the right, there is a 20th-century plank door and three additional 20th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Cooks Folly receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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