Folly About 110 Metres North-West of Pitt House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Folly.

Folly About 110 Metres North-West of Pitt House

WRENN ID
secret-window-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Teignbridge
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 July 1986
Type
Folly
OS grid reference
SX 850 780
Coordinates
50.59075, -3.62521
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a folly located about 110 metres north-west of Pitt House, built in 1841. It is constructed of stone rubble and stands two storeys tall. The structure features a round tower with battered sides and an oversailing battlemented parapet supported by block machicolations. The lower storey has cross-shaped slit windows, while the upper storey is adorned with tall, narrow round-headed windows. The interior has not been inspected. Sources for this information include the Hennock tithe map from 1840 and a lithograph of Pitt House from 1841.

Local climate

Folly About 110 Metres North-West of Pitt House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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