Folly Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Farmhouse.
Folly Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- unlit-mullion-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Folly Farmhouse, Long Street Road, Hanslope
- OS grid reference
- SP 796 475
- Coordinates
- 52.12018, -0.8374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farmhouse, formerly known as Hales Folly, is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century that was refronted in 1751, as indicated by a stone tablet. The building has three bays and three storeys. The south front features chequer brickwork with a diaper pattern, while the sides and rear are constructed from rubblestone, with a two-storey rear wing. The roofs are covered with slate.
The windows are segmental-headed and have stone key blocks. The second floor has two-light small paned casements, while the ground and first floors feature larger three-light casements. The entrance door is off-centre and is accessed via a trellis porch, with a blank window recess above that contains the date plaque. The ground floor has three windows and a door, the first floor has three windows and a blank window, and the second floor has three windows only.
Local climate
Folly Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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