FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL

FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237806
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1982
List Entry Name:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL
Statutory Address:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237806
Date first listed:: 22-Oct-1982
List Entry Name:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL
Statutory Address 1:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL, HIGH STREET

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:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF MILL HOUSE SITUATED TO WEST OF THE WATER MILL, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Farningham
National Grid Reference:: TQ5448867016

Details

1. 5280 TQ 5467 9/126

FARNINGHAM HIGH STREET (south-west side) Folly in grounds of Mill House situated to west of The Water Mill

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2. Probably dates from 1790. This is situated on a hill overlooking the Water Mill. To the left there is a network of low flint walls capped with red brick. To the right of this, approached up a steep bank are 3 octagonal turrets, the one on the extreme left built of flint and brick in a chequer work design with a stone crocket over surmounted by a ball finial. The central turret is truncated and is built of flint and brick. The right side turret, also of flint and brick has a crenellated parapet and arrow-slit windows. Double-headed lancet windows to right of this. On the extreme right is a summer house built of flint with stone dressings. The rear wall has a diaper pattern of stock brick and flint, having flint galleting. The front inside wall is lined with cockle shells. The window is a 'Gothic' painted arch with stone lights. A painted arch with stone quoins leads back to the hillside. Underneath the turrets and summer house are 2 chambers excavated out of the hillside. Both have round-headed brick entrances set in a flint wall. The chambers are brick lined. Air shafts lead up, presumably to the turrets. The left hand chamber has a very small lead cistern dated 1790 forming part of a pump. The other chamber has an ogee-headed arch at the end facing the entrance. Both were probably used for storing grain for the adjacent mill and the Folly thus had a practical as well as ornamental purpose.

Listing NGR: TQ5448867016

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Legacy System number:: 415116
Legacy System:: LBS

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