Folly Castle About 3/4 Mile North of Wimpole Hall
FOLLY CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317807
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Folly Castle About 3/4 Mile North of Wimpole Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317807
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Folly Castle About 3/4 Mile North of Wimpole Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOLLY CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL
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 CASTLE ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF WIMPOLE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimpole
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33452 52076
Details
WIMPOLE TL 35SW Folly Castle about 3/4 mile north of Wimpole Hall (formerly listed as Gothic 22.11.67 ruins in Wimpole Park)
GV II*
Folly Castle. 1768-70 by James Essex. Red brick with coursed clunch ashlar facing. Three towers linked by curtain walling. The centre tower forms an eye-catcher from the house and is of four stages. Originally with embattled and corbelled parapet. Each stage has windows of two lights with Y-tracery in two centre arches and crosslet loop lights. Curtain wall has on west side an original entrance opening with shields of arms and three-light window with Y-tracery above. The design is based on drawings supplied by Sanderson Miller for the first Lord Hardwicke in 1749-50.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs. Mon. (2) p.223 Dr T Cocke: The Ingenious Mr Essex architect (exh. cat. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1984)
Listing NGR: TL3345252076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52810
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cocke, T, The Ingenious Mr Essex Architect, (1984)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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