Lord Berner's Folly is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1986. Folly. 2 related planning applications.
Lord Berner's Folly
- WRENN ID
- winter-rood-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1986
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Lord Berner's Folly, Faringdon Hill, Great Faringdon
- OS grid reference
- SU 297 956
- Coordinates
- 51.65889, -1.57145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lord Berner's Folly is a tall brick tower built in 1935 by Lord Gerald Wellesley for Lord Berners of Faringdon House. The tower stands 140 feet high and has a square plan made of plain Fletton brick. It was originally intended to be whitewashed, but features a red brick upper stage with three round arched windows with glazing bars on each face, showcasing intersecting tracery. The tower is topped with an octagonal crown that has stone coping and crenellations at the corners, each adorned with short stone pinnacles. The structure was featured in the Architectural Review in 1936.
Local climate
Lord Berner's Folly receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 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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