Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1970. House. 1 related planning application.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- empty-stair-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Folly Cottage, Thame, OX9 2HX
- OS grid reference
- SP 697 048
- Coordinates
- 51.73803, -0.99176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Moreton, Thame. The building features a ground floor that is rendered, likely over brick, with timber framing and rendered infill above. It has a thatched roof and brick stacks at each end. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. There is a plank door with an open gabled porch on the right side. The windows are irregularly arranged and consist of 20th-century casements, and there are two swept dormers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Folly Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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