The Folly is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Folly
- WRENN ID
- scattered-stone-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Folly, Braintree Road, Felsted, CM6 3DN
- OS grid reference
- TL 680 204
- Coordinates
- 51.85718, 0.43838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Folly is a house dating from the 15th century, featuring a crosswing and hall with later additions and alterations. It has a red plain tiled roof, a gabled and jettied porch, and a crosswing to the right, along with two gabled dormers to the left. The structure is timber framed and plastered, with three windows above the jetty and three ranges of small paned casements on the ground floor. The entrance includes a four-panel door with two lights to the left and a two-panel door with two lights to the right. There is an off-centre red brick chimney stack.
Local climate
The Folly sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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