Folly in Garden Approximately 12 Metres South of Rosemullion (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 November 1987. Folly.

Folly in Garden Approximately 12 Metres South of Rosemullion (Not Included)

WRENN ID
dark-hammer-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 November 1987
Type
Folly
OS grid reference
SS 442 267
Coordinates
51.01887, -4.22242
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The folly, originally associated with Moretonk on Abbotsham Road, is now situated in the garden of a late 20th-century house called Rosemullion. It dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of stone rubble. The structure features a semi-circular wall on the west side designed to resemble a small medieval castle. It has a slightly convex two-stage center with a round turret on each side. There is a raised band between the stages, and each turret has a pointed-arched doorway that was blocked in 1990, along with a narrow flat-headed window in the upper stage. At the top of each turret, there is a double raised band; the left turret has a plain parapet, while the right turret features eight mock arrow-slits and part of a conical roof. The center of the folly has three tall blind recesses with cranked heads and a parapet with three arrow-slits. The structure does not have an interior, but it is said that before the doorways were blocked, it was possible to climb the turrets.

Local climate

Folly in Garden Approximately 12 Metres South of Rosemullion (Not Included) receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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