Folly's End is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House.
Folly's End
- WRENN ID
- floating-steel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Folly's End, Stour House, Wyke Street, Gillingham, SP8 4NA
- OS grid reference
- ST 804 264
- Coordinates
- 51.03749, -2.28026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly's End is a house, probably dating from the early 18th century. It features coursed rubble walls, a gable-ended tiled roof, and end brick stacks. The building has two storeys and attics, with a three-window range. The windows are two and three-light casements with leaded lights, and the ground floor windows are set under wooden lintels. There is a central plank door, and to the left, there are 20th-century French doors.
Local climate
Folly's End receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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