Folly, Fawsyde House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 2001. Folly.
Folly, Fawsyde House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-banister-marsh
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 May 2001
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- NO 845 771
- Coordinates
- 56.88524, -2.25488
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fawsyde House features a folly built in the later 19th century. This structure is a single bay, three-stage folly designed in an Elizabethan style, with a near square plan and an octagonal tower at the corners. It is constructed from sandstone with polished dressings, and it includes stone mullions and transoms in its windows, along with a base course. The parapet is crenellated and corbelled out, and the tower has strip quoins.
On the southeast elevation, there is a panelled timber door at ground level, which has barred upper panels. Above, there is a single window on both the first and second floors, and a corner bartizan is located to the right. The taller octagonal angle tower to the left features irregularly spaced narrow stair lights. The windows are unglazed.
Local climate
Folly, Fawsyde House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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