8, Folly Mill Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. A Nineteenth Century Workshop.
8, Folly Mill Lane
- WRENN ID
- tired-quoin-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Workshop
- Period
- Nineteenth Century
- Address
- 8, Folly Mill Lane, Bridport
- OS grid reference
- SY 466 927
- Coordinates
- 50.73202, -2.7566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Folly Mill Lane is a building from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone and features a pitched slate roof with a red brick stack. The building has three storeys and attics, with three ranges of casement windows that include glazing bars; the windows on the second floor are partly shuttered. There is a planked loading door on the first floor, with a winch hoist above it. The ground floor has modern openings, and the west elevation includes two attic casements with glazing bars.
Local climate
8, Folly Mill Lane receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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