Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-trefoil-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Folly Cottage, Spyway Road, Askerswell, DT6 4PH
- OS grid reference
- SY 521 932
- Coordinates
- 50.73726, -2.6794
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a detached cottage built in the mid-18th century. It features rubble stone walls and a thatched roof, which has stone gable-coping on the left-hand gable and scroll kneelers. There is a brick stack on the left-hand gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has six irregularly placed windows, which are two-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing-bars, and full glazing-bars on the upper windows. The windows have wooden cills, and the openings are topped with keyed stone lintels and segmental stone arches. The entrance is located at the rear, in a 20th-century extension.
Local climate
Folly Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2025
- 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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