Folly Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Folly Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-plaster-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Folly Farmhouse, Folly Road, Alfrick
- OS grid reference
- SO 752 541
- Coordinates
- 52.18467, -2.36383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th century or earlier, with later additions. The upper floors of the earlier part are timber-framed, featuring wattle-and-daub and partly brick infill, while the 19th-century addition is constructed of brick with fictive timbering. The roofs are tiled. The building has a hall and cross-wing plan with the entrance located in the angle. It is two storeys high with irregular fenestration. The main part has a projecting gable to the right, which is underbuilt in brick and has one range of windows. To the left, a taller "hall" range overlaps, featuring one window in the centre on the first floor and one to the left of the entrance on the ground floor. The entrance has a four-panel mid-19th-century door.
To the left, there is a lower extension from the mid-19th century, which has two 20th-century casement windows on the first floor, one 20th-century casement with a cambered head, and one plain 19th-century sash on the ground floor. The gable end chimney stacks include one that belongs to the main part of the house. The rear of the building shows better-preserved timber-framing, and the cross-wing retains its jetty. There are various lean-to additions of later date on either side of the house and at the rear. It is suggested that the left-hand wing may be part of an earlier lower cruck-built main range that was partly raised and floored in the 17th century, which contributed to the central entrance portion.
Local climate
Folly Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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