Folly at Brackenborough Hall

FOLLY AT BRACKENBOROUGH HALL, BRACKENBOROUGH HALL DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1063083
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Folly at Brackenborough Hall
Statutory Address:
FOLLY AT BRACKENBOROUGH HALL, BRACKENBOROUGH HALL DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1063083
Date first listed:
17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Folly at Brackenborough Hall
Statutory Address 1:
FOLLY AT BRACKENBOROUGH HALL, BRACKENBOROUGH HALL DRIVE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FOLLY AT BRACKENBOROUGH HALL, BRACKENBOROUGH HALL DRIVE

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Brackenborough with Little Grimsby
National Grid Reference:
TF 32948 90549

Details

BRACKENBOROUGH BRACKENBOROUGH TF 39 SW HALL DRIVE (west side) 3/14 Folly at Brackenborough Hall G.V. II

Folly. 1863 re-using C14 fragments. Red brick, some greenstone rubble, limestone ashlar. West side with pointed ashlar dressed window to left and rectangular window to right, with 3 cusped ogee headed lights, both with broad wooden lintels. North side with large pointed arch of re-used window with moulded surround, stub of tracery in head and hood mould. East side with moulded arch with segmental head and hood mould. South side with rectangular window with 2 cusped ogee headed lights and broad wooden lintel. Folly open to air, raised on mound in south-west corner of moated site. Medieval fragments taken from Fotherby parish church, demolished 1863. Built for James Robson.

Listing NGR: TF3294890549

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
195456
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.

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