Folds End Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Farmhouse.
Folds End Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-parapet-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Folds End Farmhouse, Longnor, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 090 648
- Coordinates
- 53.18041, -1.86582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folds End Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has origins in the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed stone with dressings and features a blue machine-tile roof, verge parapets, and modillioned eaves, along with a banded stone ridge stack. The building has an L-shaped plan with 20th-century lean-to additions.
The entrance front is set back and two-storey, with a projecting gable and a lean-to on the right. On the first floor, there is a three-light chamfered mullioned and transomed window at the left end of the entrance, while below it is a single-light window with a chamfered reveal and a moulded label. The entrance is located at the return angle and features a 20th-century glazed door. At the rear, there are two 2-light block mullioned sash windows.
Local climate
Folds End Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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