BANTAM FOLLY, APPROX 200 YARDS WEST OF BELSAY CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152975
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: BANTAM FOLLY, APPROX 200 YARDS WEST OF BELSAY CASTLE
Statutory Address:: BANTAM FOLLY, APPROX 200 YARDS WEST OF BELSAY CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152975
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: BANTAM FOLLY, APPROX 200 YARDS WEST OF BELSAY CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: BANTAM FOLLY, APPROX 200 YARDS WEST OF BELSAY CASTLE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BANTAM FOLLY, APPROX 200 YARDS WEST OF BELSAY CASTLE

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Belsay
National Grid Reference:: NZ 08066 78589

Details

BELSAY BELSAY NZ 0878

26/11 Bantam Folly, approx 200 yards west of Belsay Castle

GV II

Farm buildings. c.1757 for Sir William Middleton. Ashlar with stone slate and asbestos roofs. Gothick style. A ferme ornée. 9 bays in five sections: 1:3:1: 3:1.

1-bay end pavilions have boarded doors in architraves. Gabled roofs with flat coping and kneelers. Pavilion to left has stone slate roof, that to right is roofless.

Central section has 7 segmental arches with keystones. All are now blocked up and have boarded doors set in. The central arch is wider with a tall castellated dovecote tower above. It has a large quatrefoil with moulded surround, formerly the entry to the dovecote but now blocked up; and it once had a spire.

Interior of dovecote has many brick nesting boxes.

Belsay: English Heritage : HBMC : 1984.

Listing NGR: NZ0807378590

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Legacy System number:: 238498
Legacy System:: LBS

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Legal

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