Rocket Ship Folly, Approximately 200 Metres to North-East of Sorrelsykes House is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1988. Folly.
Rocket Ship Folly, Approximately 200 Metres to North-East of Sorrelsykes House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-kitchen-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1988
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- SE 025 883
- Coordinates
- 54.2905, -1.96221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rocket Ship Folly, located approximately 200 metres to the north-east of Sorrelsykes House, is a folly built in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed from rubble and features a base shaped like a cube, supported by tapering diagonal buttresses. On the west side, there is a narrow doorway with a blind oculus above it. The top of the base is adorned with flagged coping that surrounds a tapering circular obelisk rising from it. This obelisk has two blind round-headed vents on the west side and is capped with flagstones. The interior of the folly is circular in plan and tapers towards the top, with beams spanning across. Its distinctive shape has led to it being nicknamed the "rocket ship" in recent times.
Local climate
Rocket Ship Folly, Approximately 200 Metres to North-East of Sorrelsykes House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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