Folly, Avondale House is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 October 1972.
Folly, Avondale House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-forge-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1972
- OS grid reference
- NS 953 788
- Coordinates
- 55.99139, -3.67874
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a small, square folly constructed in the castellated style, situated within Avondale Park. It features a circular tower at each corner and an embattled parapet. The folly is now a roofless ruin.
Local climate
Folly, Avondale House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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