Folly Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1978. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Folly Yard
- WRENN ID
- seventh-vault-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Folly Yard, 7, Main Street, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness, LA10 5AE
- OS grid reference
- SD 659 921
- Coordinates
- 54.32353, -2.52541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small, probably 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Main Street in Sedbergh. It was derelict when inspected in 1994. The cottage is built of coursed mixed rubble with quoins and has a slate roof. It has a single-depth, double-fronted plan.
The external facade features two windows on each floor. Quoins are visible where the cottage adjoins number 9 to the left. A segmental-headed doorway is at ground floor level, flanked by segmental-headed square windows; all these openings are defined by rubble voussoirs and currently lack any joinery. The first floor has a window above the right-hand ground floor window, now reduced in width and also without joinery, along with a narrow casement to the left.
Inside, the cottage has a roughly-hewn ceiling beam and a narrow staircase located beside the front wall. Some building work was evident at the time of inspection. The cottage forms a group with numbers 9 and 11 to the left.
Local climate
Folly Yard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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