Barn About 70 Metres North of Folly Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1986. A Georgian Barn.
Barn About 70 Metres North of Folly Cottages
- WRENN ID
- iron-roof-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1986
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 456 720
- Coordinates
- 51.44521, -2.78312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This barn, located about 70 metres north of Folly Cottages, dates back to 1731, as indicated on the right gable end. It is constructed of limestone rubble and features a pantiled roof with a double Roman tiled lean-to. The barn has a rectangular shape and includes a sheltered area at the rear. The front of the barn has a plain door with an upper loading door to the left. The left gable end features a triangular owlhole and a lean-to with a door, while the right gable end has a loading door and a datestone above that reads "....eale Esq/1731," along with another triangular owlhole above it. The rear of the barn has a catslide roof over the open sheltered area, supported by tapered circular rubble piers that create five bays, with a central door in the rear wall. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Barn About 70 Metres North of Folly Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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