Folly on Hill North East of Inglewood Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Folly.
Folly on Hill North East of Inglewood Bank
- WRENN ID
- hidden-bastion-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Folly on Hill North East of Inglewood Bank, Great Salkeld
- OS grid reference
- NY 535 346
- Coordinates
- 54.70479, -2.72193
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The folly, likely used as a field barn, dates from the late 19th century and is located on a hill northeast of Inglewood Bank in Great Salkeld. It is constructed from red sandstone rubble and features a small rectangular shape without any windows. The building has an end pointed-arched doorway and is topped with walls that have a battlemented parapet.
Local climate
Folly on Hill North East of Inglewood Bank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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