Frenchs Folly is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
Frenchs Folly
- WRENN ID
- lone-turret-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Frenchs Folly, Ipswich Road, Debach, IP13 6BZ
- OS grid reference
- TM 243 552
- Coordinates
- 52.15036, 1.27736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
French’s Folly is a house dating to the 16th century. It is timber-framed and has been rendered with colourwash, topped with a plain tile roof, originally thatched. The building comprises three rooms arranged vertically. The rear elevation, which serves as the main façade, features plank doors on either side, with 20th-century metal framed casement windows to the ground floor. Similar windows are present on the first floor, alongside windows with diamond-section mullions. A large stack rises from the ridge towards the left of centre, and another stack is located on the right-hand gable end. Later 20th-century windows are found on the remaining sides of the property. Internally, the ground floor retains massive chamfered ceiling beams with exposed plain joists and close studded walling.
Local climate
Frenchs Folly sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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