Folly Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Folly Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- other-tallow-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Folly Farmhouse, 48 and 48a, Saunton Road, Braunton, EX33 1HD
- OS grid reference
- SS 482 366
- Coordinates
- 51.10931, -4.16974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Farmhouse is a pair of attached houses that were originally a farmhouse with an attached barn, likely built in the 18th century. The structure is made of rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof, and consists of two storeys. There are brick stacks at the gable ends and an axial brick stack. The smaller of the two dwellings on the left is the original farmhouse, featuring a symmetrical facade and a thatched outshut at the rear that was formerly used as a dairy. The barn on the right was converted into a dwelling in the early 20th century, during which a two-storey extension with a castellated parapet was added to the rear.
The building has a six-window range, with two-light casements, except for the second window from the right, which is a single light. On the ground floor, there are four three-light windows, with the leftmost window being a canted bay with a pantiled roof. There are two porches, one with a pantiled roof on the left and the other with wooden slats on the right. All windows feature diamond leaded lights. Inside the barn portion, there is 17th-century dado panelling that is two panels high, along with two original plank doors located in the room to the left of the entrance hall. This panelling is said to have come from Northgate, Barnstaple.
Local climate
Folly Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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