The Folly
THE FOLLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329143
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOLLY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329143
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOLLY
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:
- THE FOLLY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4579952396
Details
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/217 The Folly (formerly listed as the
Folly Ruins)
23.1.68
GV II
Folly. Probably late C18/early C19, incorporating re-used granite details.
Sandstone rubble incorporating earlier features in granite and metamorphic stone.
Rectangular plan, constructed as a ruin, roofless, with a viewing platform at first
floor reached by steps to rear.
Front has 2-light window set at upper level, with cusped lights, upper Y-tracery and
roll-moulded jambs, with 2 carved grotesque masks as corbels. Set free-standing to
right, a square-plan pier with a granite crocketted pinnacle to top. Right side has
pointed arched window to right, to upper level left the cill and jambs of a larger
window opening. Left side has plain granite doorway with lintel but no walling
over, at upper level to right a 2-light cusped window, only one light remaining.
Rear has roll-moulded oval granite window with recessed spandrels, probably 2 re-
used doorheads, the bottom one set upside down.
Interior A granite winder stair leads to the viewing platform, which probably
formerly had rails to rear.
Situated on a conspicuous hilltop site in Mount Edgcumbe Park, overlooking Plymouth
Sound.
Listing NGR: SX4579952396
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
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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