Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. Detached house.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-vault-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Folly Cottage, Atcombe Road (South End), Woodchester
- OS grid reference
- SO 836 016
- Coordinates
- 51.71338, -2.23806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a detached house that dates from the late 17th century, with an enlargement from the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble limestone, featuring rebuilt chimneys made of ashlar and artificial stone, and has a stone slate roof. The building is two stories high and has a rear wing that forms an L-shape. There are 20th-century additions to both the east and west ends of the cottage.
The front of the cottage has the earliest part on the left, with an extension to the right. It features two-window chamfered mullioned fenestration, with a three-light window on the ground floor flanking a central chamfered doorway that has a hoodmould rising over the lintel. There are three dormers at the eaves level, each with 2-light casements and a circular light above, made of iron. The former east end has an ashlar gable end chimney with a moulded cap. At the rear, there is a gabled wing to the right, with a blocked upper floor single-light opening above a single-storey 20th-century flat-roofed addition, and a flat-roofed attic dormer from the same period. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Folly Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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