Badger's Folly is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. Garden structure.
Badger's Folly
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rubblework-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP: Mike Wood (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden structure
- Address
- Badger's Folly, Bearnett Drive, Wombourne
- OS grid reference
- SO 883 947
- Coordinates
- 52.55083, -2.17387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Badger's Folly is a garden structure dating from the early 19th century, built from coursed sandstone rubble. This Gothic folly resembles a ruined castle and features a cylindrical tower with short sections of wall attached to the south and west. The east front displays the cylindrical tower on the right, which rises to two storeys and includes a pointed, nail-studded door, along with a first-floor loop to the right. To the left, there is an attached wall with a pointed doorway flanked by a pair of rectangular loops. At the rear of the tower, there is a doorway with a 4-centred arch. Originally, Badger's Folly was part of the garden of Bearnett House, but it now stands amidst a housing development from the 1980s.
Local climate
Badger's Folly receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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