60, Folly Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Cottage.
60, Folly Lane
- WRENN ID
- weathered-latch-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 60, Folly Lane, Melksham Without
- OS grid reference
- ST 878 658
- Coordinates
- 51.39126, -2.17616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 60 Folly Lane is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with a single-storey outbuilding attached to the right. The cottage is built from random rubblestone and features a stone slate roof with coped verges and a saddlestone and brick stack on the right. It is two storeys high and has two windows. The central door is set in a plain ashlar case, with a 16-pane sash window in a moulded architrave to the right and a 4-pane sash window to the left. On the first floor, there are two 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows. The gable on the right has a small round-headed window at the top right. The attached outbuilding from the 19th century also has a stone slate roof and features a door and a casement window to the right. The interior has not been inspected. The cottage is attached to No 59 on the left.
Local climate
60, Folly Lane receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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