Folly W of The Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Folly.

Folly W of The Old Hall

WRENN ID
rough-window-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Folly
Address
Folly W of The Old Hall, Halkyn, Holywell
OS grid reference
SJ 205 712
Coordinates
53.2326, -3.19174
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building known as the Folly, located west of The Old Hall, is a Grade II listed structure. It features a castellated façade made of rubble stone, with slightly raised end turrets and short end walls that hide a lean-to at the back, which has a modern slate roof.

The double-height front wall includes four segmental-headed openings at the upper level, which still retain their early wooden frames. Below these openings is a central doorway, also framed in early wood, but above it is the rubble-stone blocking of an earlier, taller opening that once had a stone segmental head. To the left of the doorway is a window with a brick segmental head, while to the right is a boarded door set beneath a wooden lintel. The left end wall has stone ledges and two openings that were originally used for a pigeon loft. The rear wall has ventilation strips that have been infilled.

Inside, there is a 19th-century fireplace against the left wall, and joist sockets suggest that there was originally an upper storey. The interior is divided by stone partitions.

Local climate

Folly W of The Old Hall receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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