Folly Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House. 10 related planning applications.

Folly Farmhouse

WRENN ID
stark-brass-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Folly Farmhouse, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1SG
OS grid reference
TL 616 218
Coordinates
51.87215, 0.34739
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Folly Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and features a gabled crosswing at the east end. The front has a four-window range of 19th-century vertical sliding sashes, with sidelights on three of the windows; the central window does not have sidelights. There is a Doric porch with a pediment, and a ground floor bay window that has a hipped roof made of red plain tiles. An original red brick chimney stack is present, although it has been partly rebuilt at the top.

Local climate

Folly Farmhouse 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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