Folly Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. Farmhouse.
Folly Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- distant-ember-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1981
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Folly Farmhouse, Varchoel, Guilsfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 234 118
- Coordinates
- 52.69866, -3.13397
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Folly Farmhouse is a timber-framed building with a slate roof and a brick gable on the west side. It is one storey high with an attic and consists of three bays. The central living hall features an axial stack, and there is a parlour located at the rear in the northeast bay. The stack on the west gable is likely an addition, and there is a later hipped extension at the northeast end.
The framing consists of three panels high with corner braces supporting the main posts. There is a panelled door located in an open gabled porch that includes seats, positioned at the lower west end of the central bay. The building features iron lattice windows in the style of the early 19th century, characteristic of the Trelydan estate, along with gabled dormers. The east gable has raking struts.
The interior was not accessible during the inspection in October 1994.
Local climate
Folly Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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