The Folly, West of the Kitchen Garden
THE FOLLY, WEST OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160117
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly, West of the Kitchen Garden
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOLLY, WEST OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN
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- 2004-04-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/11725/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160117
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly, West of the Kitchen Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOLLY, WEST OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN
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 FOLLY, WEST OF THE KITCHEN GARDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 63639 34816
Details
SW 63 SW CROWAN CLOWANCE
4/130 The Folly, west of the kitchen - garden
GV II
Summer house, disused. Circa early-mid C19. Dressed coursed granite walls to front and rear otherwise rubble. Lateral brick chimney over right hand side wall.Rectangular single cell plan: heated first floor room over unheated ground floor/basement store. Entrance to ground floor through left hand side wall; entrance to first floor up straight flight of external steps to central first floor doorway in the front (east) wall. Fireplace midway on right hand (north) wall. Classical style. 2 storeys. Dressed granite unmoulded pediments surmounting the front and the rear. At either side of the front are screen walls with a half-dome headed niche midway to each. Brick arches over. The 6 granite steps leading to the central first floor doorway are flanking by the original ramped and scrolled wrought iron handrails carried on stanchions. At the rear is a squat central blocked ground floor/basement window opening and a tall first floor window opening over. Though roofless and floorless this garden building has all its masonry intact and is an important feature within the Clowance estate.
Listing NGR: SW6363934816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65839
- 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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