Folly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1987. Cottage.
Folly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-tin-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Folly Cottage, Stoke Orchard
- OS grid reference
- SO 915 280
- Coordinates
- 51.95119, -2.12419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century. It features square-panelled timber framing with rendered and painted brick infill set on a limestone plinth. The cottage has a thatched roof with brick stacks and a rectangular plan for the main body. There is a single-storey extension with a pantile roof and a lean-to at the entrance front and right gable end, which are not of special interest.
The main body has 1½ storeys, an eyebrow dormer, and a 3-light metal casement window. The ground floor includes a two-light metal casement window with horizontal glazing bars and shutters, as well as a studded plank door with fillets located within the lean-to porch at the entrance front. At the rear, there is a single eyebrow dormer with a 3-light metal casement, a four-light wooden casement, and 20th-century French doors featuring horizontal glazing bars. The left gable end has a large projecting stack with a 20th-century shaft, while the right gable end has a projecting corner stack and is half-hipped. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Folly Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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