Wise Follies is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.
Wise Follies
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-sandstone-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wise Follies, the Square, Elham, CT4 6TJ
- OS grid reference
- TR 177 438
- Coordinates
- 51.15288, 1.11175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House. Dating to the late 18th century with a front range built onto an earlier 17th or earlier structure. The building has a timber frame and a front elevation clad in mathematical tiles, with a short, tile-hung left return and the remainder of the left return constructed of chequered red and grey brick. It has a plain tile roof and a hipped roof with no visible chimney stack. The two-storey main facade is a regular three-window arrangement of sixteen-pane sashes in open boxes. Similar ground-floor windows have segmental heads. The central door is of six fielded panels and is topped by a rectangular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, set within a reeded architrave with reeded borders to rectangular paterae, and to the central panel of the frieze. It is further accentuated by a flat, corniced door hood. A rear range is timber framed with brick infilling on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Wise Follies receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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