Folly House and Pineapple House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. House.

Folly House and Pineapple House

WRENN ID
stubborn-doorway-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
House
Address
Folly House and Pineapple House, 47, St Martin's Lane
OS grid reference
TG 227 092
Coordinates
52.63508, 1.29077
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Folly House and Pineapple House are two houses located on the north side of St. Martin's Lane, dating from the 17th century with a 19th-century range. They are constructed from flint and brick rubble, featuring a rendered plinth and red brick dressings. The gable front is rendered, while the range to the right is painted brick, topped with a pantiled roof.

Folly House, on the left, is positioned at right angles to the street and has two storeys with a two-window range. It features a simple panelled door from the 19th century, framed by a wooden architrave and topped with a small hood supported by decorative consoles. The first floor has casement windows with leaded lights, including one with an iron frame. A 19th-century stepped gable on kneelers is adjacent to a later extension at the rear. The street-facing side has two 20th-century ground floor casements and two small hexagonal windows on the first floor, along with iron ties. The side elevation displays mullioned casements.

Pineapple House, on the right, also has two storeys. It features a 19th-century bressumer over a carriage arch to the left and half-glazed double-leaf doors to the right. The first floor includes two 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. The later three-window range to the right is not of special architectural interest.

Local climate

Folly House and Pineapple House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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