FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED)

FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED), PORT VALE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268777
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED), PORT VALE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268777
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address 1:: FOLLY IN GROUNDS OF BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED), PORT VALE

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 BEANE RIVER VIEW (BEANE RIVER VIEW NOT INCLUDED), PORT VALE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32194 12744

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW PORT VALE 817-1/16/171 (South side) Folly in grounds of Beane River View (Beane River View not included)

II

Folly. c1848. Yellow stock brick with stone and artificial stone dressings. Neo-Romanesque style, built as ornamental ruin. 3 storey circular tower with machicolated top and projecting Lombard frieze. Slit windows with artificial stone heads, quoins and sills. Buttresses to suggest 'ruined' walls; ground floor has semicircular headed Norman style doorway with cushion capitals on colonnettes and rope moulded head. To west is single storey continuation in rubble and artificial stone with external stair to first floor running over elaborate Norman style semicircular archway with triple colonnette reveals, cushion capitals, moulded impost band and twine and ball, dog tooth and bird beak moulded bands below outer dripmould. HISTORICAL NOTE: this folly was built in the extended garden area of No.2 North Road (qv), acquired by Thomas Smith in the 1840s, which included 5 acres of picturesque gardens, and the island between the river and the Sele Mill stream. Ownership was split after 1945 and the folly is now in the grounds of a recently developed sheltered housing and nursing home for the elderly. (Felstead A: Directory of British Architects 1834-1900: London: 1993-).

Listing NGR: TL3219412744

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Legacy System number:: 461450
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Felstead, A, Directory of British Architects 1834-1900, (1993)

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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.