Pepper Pot Folly, Approximately 150 Metres to 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.
Pepper Pot Folly, Approximately 150 Metres to East of Sorrelsykes House
- WRENN ID
- proud-roof-fen
- 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 025 882
- Coordinates
- 54.28999, -1.9624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pepper Pot Folly is a folly located approximately 150 metres east of Sorrelsykes House, built in the early to mid-19th century. The structure is made of rubble and has a circular plan with two stages. The lower stage is slightly tapering, while the upper stage is concave, each topped with a projecting course of stones and a conical cap. There is a very small doorway on the west side. The interior is also circular in plan.
Local climate
Pepper Pot Folly, Approximately 150 Metres to 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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