Barn at Folly Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Barn. 9 related planning applications.
Barn at Folly Farm
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pewter-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Folly Farm, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1SG
- OS grid reference
- TL 617 218
- Coordinates
- 51.87154, 0.34757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a barn, likely dating to the 15th or 16th century. It is a timber-framed structure with some plastered areas and other areas covered in weatherboarding. The roof is half-hipped and covered in red plain tiles. The barn is eight bays long and includes two half-hipped midstreys.
Local climate
Barn at Folly Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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