Folly Tower at Tower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1973. Tower.
Folly Tower at Tower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-wicket-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1973
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Folly Tower at Tower Cottage, Tower Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 168 483
- Coordinates
- 51.22272, -0.32833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Tower at Tower Cottage is a building dating from around 1830. It is a three-storey tower built over the ground floor of the house at its western end. The tower is constructed of sandstone and features brick quoins, stringcourses, window dressings, and battlements. It has one window bay with pointed arches, although the windows themselves have been replaced with modern flat arched casement windows. The tower is situated above the entrance to the house, which has one storey and an attic, along with a basement and a gable at its eastern end. There is one window in the eastern part of the house, which has a stuccoed front.
Local climate
Folly Tower at Tower Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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