The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West of Barwick House
THE ROSE TOWER, 440 METRES WEST OF BARWICK HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057221
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West of Barwick House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROSE TOWER, 440 METRES WEST OF BARWICK HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057221
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West of Barwick House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROSE TOWER, 440 METRES WEST OF BARWICK HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROSE TOWER, 440 METRES WEST OF BARWICK HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barwick and Stoford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55621 14253
Details
ST51SE BARWICK CP BARWICK PARK
5/6 The Rose Tower, 440 metres West of Barwick House (formerly listed as Obelisk in Barwick Park North of Church) 19.4.61
GV II
Folly. Circa 1775, Local stone rubble with Ham stone ashlar. Circular podium of about 4 metres diameter and 0.6 metres high, on which stands a hollow circular drum, about 4-metres high, pierced with three pointed arches with bands of rectangular openings at about 1.25 metres intervals, the top 2-metres being in fine ashlar with a ball finial, the whole being approximately 20-metres high. The West boundary marker of the Barwick Park estate, probably erected by John Newman. The most spectacular of the four follies set on the cardinal point axes through Barwick House (qv), it features in three paintings dated between 1770 and 1780. (Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes, Constable 1974.)
Listing NGR: ST5562114253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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