The Folly is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. House.
The Folly
- WRENN ID
- former-sandstone-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Folly, Chipperfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 041 010
- Coordinates
- 51.69899, -0.49422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Folly is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a 19th-century brick front and a rear lean-to that has been divided into two houses, with a southern bay added in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame on a stuccoed sill, is roughcast with a red brick front, and has a steep old red tile roof, along with a slated two-storey part rear lean-to. The house has a two-cells, two-storey and attic layout, with end chimneys, and it faces east, including a matching added southern part. Its plot likely encroached on the common land.
There is a large external chimney on the northern gable with one flue and an enlarged base. Before the southern extension, the front was symmetrical, featuring a flush casement three-light window on each side of the porch on both floors. The entrance consists of twin two-panel flush doors set within a single ornate lean-to tiled porch that has brackets and glazed arcading. An early 20th-century rectangular wooden bay window has been inserted to the right of the porch. The attic has casement windows, and there are small windows in the northern gable end facing the common.
Local climate
The Folly sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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