Folly Tower About 300 Metres South South East of Yaxley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. Gazebo.

Folly Tower About 300 Metres South South East of Yaxley Hall

WRENN ID
upper-gateway-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1987
Type
Gazebo
OS grid reference
TM 125 732
Coordinates
52.31652, 1.11685
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Folly Tower, located about 300 meters south-southeast of Yaxley Hall, is a gazebo designed to resemble a small church tower. It is believed to have been constructed around 1852 for P.R. Welch of Yaxley Hall. The structure is made of flint and red brick rubble with stone dressings and has a square plan with diagonal buttresses at the corners. Originally, it stood two storeys tall.

The front features an entrance with a reused 15th-century stone arch that has a pointed shape and an inner chamfer, adorned with outer Tudor Rose ornamentation. The bell capitals on the responds are roll-moulded, and the jambs are made of early ovolo-moulded red brick. There is a string course at the upper level, which is set back slightly and features pointed arched windows. The tower has four full-height buttresses with stone offsets, and at the rear, an external stair once led to the upper storey. The tower formerly had an embattled parapet. Inside, the walls are cement rendered and include pointed arched niches.

Local climate

Folly Tower About 300 Metres South South East of Yaxley Hall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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