Folly Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Folly Farm
- WRENN ID
- rusted-glass-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Folly Farm, Barkham Road, RG41 2RS
- OS grid reference
- SU 797 680
- Coordinates
- 51.40581, -0.85437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farm is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 18th century and around 1930. The building features a combination of timber framing with painted brick infill and brick construction, topped by an old tile gabled roof that is half hipped at the rear of the 17th-century section. It is designed in an L-shape with two framed extensions at the back, and it has two storeys and a cellar.
The front of the house has six bays, although it was originally three bays wide. Notable architectural details include a brick dentilled eaves course and sash windows with glazing bars. There are four double-height canted bays with dentilled eaves extending around them in wood. A sash window is located between the third and fourth bays, and centrally below this is a two-panelled door, which is topped with a flat hood featuring a planked soffit, a dentilled frieze, and large carved brackets.
Inside, the timber frame is exposed in the rear section of the 17th-century part, which also contains a large fireplace and a bread oven, although the latter is now covered.
Local climate
Folly Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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