Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-step-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Folly Cottage, Chalkcroft Lane, Penton Mewsey, SP11 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 330 475
- Coordinates
- 51.22589, -1.52827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a house built in the late 18th century, with some mid-19th century details. It has rendered walls and a tiled roof. The building is positioned at right angles to the road, with the front facing south. It features two storeys and three windows. The hipped roof includes a catslide at the rear, and there is a large stepped chimney stack on the west end. The walls are plain, and the windows are Victorian sashes, with three lights in the middle of the first floor and two ground floor splayed bays also with sashes. The doorway is plain and has a canopy supported by carved brackets, leading to a late 19th century four-panelled door.
Local climate
Folly Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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