Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-window-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Folly Cottage, the Green, Grundisburgh, IP13 6TA
- OS grid reference
- TM 223 509
- Coordinates
- 52.1123, 1.24538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a house dating from the 17th or 18th century. It is timber-framed and has a colourwashed render exterior and a pantile roof. The house has two storeys. The left-hand side features a projecting, gabled wing that is single-storeyed with an attic. This wing has French windows on the ground floor and a 2-light casement window on the first floor. To the right of the wing is the main part of the house, which has a 4-panel flush door positioned slightly left of centre. Immediately to the right of the door is a 2-light casement window, and further windows to the right include a 3x2-pane window, a 2-light window with a cambered head, and another 2-light window. The first floor has four 2-light casement windows. The house has axial stacks to the right, a cross-axial stack to the left, and a further stack in the re-entrant angle between the main range and the left wing. The rear of the building has 20th-century additions at ground floor level. Inside, the ground floor has chamfered ceiling beams and joists. The walls feature exposed studwork. All windows are 20th-century replacements.
Local climate
Folly Cottage 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 8 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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