BROWN'S FOLLY

BROWN'S FOLLY, BATHFORD HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021829
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: BROWN'S FOLLY
Statutory Address:: BROWN'S FOLLY, BATHFORD HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021829
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: BROWN'S FOLLY
Statutory Address 1:: BROWN'S FOLLY, BATHFORD HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BROWN'S FOLLY, BATHFORD HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Monkton Farleigh
National Grid Reference:: ST7948066060

Details

ST 76 NE 1/112

MONKTON FARLEIGH BATHFORD HILL (north side) Brown's Folly

II

Partly in Bathford C.P., Avon. Folly. 1848 by Mr. Wade Brown. Coursed rubble stone with shallow hipped Welsh slate roof. Tapered square tower with offset top stage. Square-headed doorway with C20 steel door on south side, datestone inscribed W 1848 B/ C 1903 H, oculus below top stage on north, east and south sides. Top stage has round-arched openings with keystones and balustraded handrails, the balustrading missing on north and west sides. Roof on deep bracketed eaves with chamfered stone cornice below. Built as an eyecatcher, reputedly to use agricultural labour during a slack time, commands fine views over Bath and the Avon valley, Wade Brown lived at Monkton Farleigh Manor House (q.v.) in 1840s.

Listing NGR: ST7948066060

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 314558
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.