Folly Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Folly Farm House
- WRENN ID
- keen-dormer-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Folly Farm House, Eddington Hill, Hungerford, RG17 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 346 694
- Coordinates
- 51.42274, -1.5028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farm House is a house from the early 19th century, with a later addition from the 19th century. The original section is made of brick and features a half hipped tiled roof, while the later part is constructed of brick and render, with a first floor band. The house has a hipped slate roof with wide eaves and central flat-topped dormers. The later block is rectangular and located to the south of the earlier section. It has two storeys and an attic. On the south elevation, there are three wide casement windows with slightly cambered heads and brick flat arches, along with a central gabled brick porch. The property is part of a group that includes barns.
Local climate
Folly Farm House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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