Flounders' Folly
FLOUNDERS' FOLLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1269911
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- Statutory Address:
- FLOUNDERS' FOLLY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1269911
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLOUNDERS' FOLLY
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FLOUNDERS' FOLLY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Culmington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 46058 85036
Details
SO 48 NE; 1943-1/7/1
CULMINGTON,
Flounders' Folly
15/03/74
II
Folly, in form of square tower. Dated 1836. For Benjamin
Flounders. Sandstone rubble; roofless.
EXTERIOR: formerly approximately 24m in height, with dressed
stone battlements, now fallen. One or two embrasures to each
front; chamfered pointed arch to south-east front; tablet
inscribed: "B.F. 1836".
INTERIOR: remains of simple open-well staircase.
HISTORY: erected to mark meeting-point of 4 estates as
employment for the poor, by Benjamin Flounders of Medley Park.
An important landmark throughout the district.
Listing NGR: SO4605885036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460286
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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