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.
Folly Yard
- WRENN ID
- mired-plaster-smoke
- 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, 9 and 11, Main Street, Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 659 921
- Coordinates
- 54.32347, -2.5254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly Yard consists of a pair of small cottages, likely built in the late 18th century. They are constructed from mixed random rubble and topped with a slate roof. Each cottage has a single-depth plan and is single-fronted, featuring three low storeys with two plus one windows. The doorways are located to the right and left, each with renewed board doors.
No. 9 has a six-pane sash window on the ground floor, a 16-pane sash window on the first floor, and a small nine-pane fixed window on the second floor. No. 11 features a 16-pane hornless sash window on the ground floor, a similar window above it, and a 16-pane horned sash window to the left. On the second floor, there is an oblong 15-pane fixed window positioned between the eaves and the lintel of the right-hand window on the first floor. Most openings of No. 11 have large monolith lintels. Both cottages have ridge chimneys. The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with No. 7, which is adjacent to the right.
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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