The Folly at Gatley Park
THE FOLLY AT GATLEY PARK, LEINTHALL EARLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375670
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly at Gatley Park
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOLLY AT GATLEY PARK, LEINTHALL EARLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375670
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly at Gatley Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOLLY AT GATLEY PARK, LEINTHALL EARLS
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 AT GATLEY PARK, LEINTHALL EARLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aymestrey
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 45766 68703
Details
SO 46 NE AYMESTREY LEINTHALL EARLS
1560/3/10000 The Folly at Gatley Park
II
House. 1961-64 by Raymond Erith for Mrs Victor Willis. Extended 1973-76 by Erith. Rubble stone with mixed ashlar and rendered dressings, stone tile domed roof. Elliptical plan on three storeys with small single-storey wings and single-storey extension.
Entrance front has curved copper-roofed verandah below string course, with entrance door and window beneath. To sides, ramped parapets to wings with ball finials, inspired by the work of William Kent. Round-headed windows to first floor and square-headed above. Small square windows to staircase and inset in curve of dome. Roof finishes with iron gallery enclosing lead-covered viewing point and stone chimney stack. Garden front has three ground-floor arch-headed openings framed in ashlar with keystones and imposts extended as string course to wings, the central opening a French door. First and second floor windows as entrance door.
Interior. Stone-paved entrance hall leads into main room with simple architraves to windows, plain cornice, stone chimneypiece with round-cornered opening and shouldered architrave rising at centre to support cornice. Walls of tongue and groove boarding, covered with original fabric. Roof supported on roughly chamfered beams. Opening without door to writing room and former kitchen, now part of passageway to extension, via lobby cranked on plan. Extension contains ground-floor kitchen (with original timber fixtures transferred), utility room, bedroom and bathroom. Spiral stair with solid timber treads and scarf-jointed solid centre post, walls of painted rubble, rises to two bedrooms each with bathroom, tongue and groove panelling and shutters to windows. Stair rises to roof space, with turned termination to post, where roof timbers are visible.
A jeu d'esprit by Erith which brought out his best architectural qualities of historical imagination and economy of means. Although the overall effect is Georgian, the inspiration is eclectic, and the geometric construction of the building as an object in space is purely abstract (related to the lunar cycle). Although small, it could be considered one of Erith's most characteristic and successful works.
Listing NGR: SO4576668703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469646
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archer, L, Raymond Erith Architect , (1985), 128-33,161
House and Garden in February, (1966), 32-35
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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