Folly Tower 150 Yards South of Clent Grove
FOLLY TOWER 150 YARDS SOUTH OF CLENT GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301122
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Folly Tower 150 Yards South of Clent Grove
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY TOWER 150 YARDS SOUTH OF CLENT GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301122
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Folly Tower 150 Yards South of Clent Grove
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOLLY TOWER 150 YARDS SOUTH OF CLENT GROVE
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:
- FOLLY TOWER 150 YARDS SOUTH OF CLENT GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clent
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92420 79768
Details
SO 97 NW CLENT CP ADAM'S HILL
6/57 Folly Tower about 150 yards south of Clent Grove 29.3.83 (Formerly listed as Folly Tower)
II
Folly tower. Late C18. Handmade brick with stone dressings. Twin round towers linked by lower central section. Three storeys with corbel table and embattled parapets. Window openings have stone architraves. Towers have pointed-arched windows to front and sides, quatrefoil windows at first floor level and windows shaped like Maltese crosses above. Linking section has a pointed archway on the ground floor and a pointed first floor window. This folly tower appears to have been of similar design to that at Castle Bourne, Bell End, Belbroughton CP (qv).
Listing NGR: SO9242079768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156322
- 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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