Bantam Folly, Approx 200 Yards West Of Belsay Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farm buildings.
Bantam Folly, Approx 200 Yards West Of Belsay Castle
- WRENN ID
- swift-landing-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BELSAY BELSAY NZ 0878
26/11 Bantam Folly, approx 200 yards west of Belsay Castle
GV II
Farm buildings. c.1757 for Sir William Middleton. Ashlar with stone slate and asbestos roofs. Gothick style. A ferme ornée. 9 bays in five sections: 1:3:1: 3:1.
1-bay end pavilions have boarded doors in architraves. Gabled roofs with flat coping and kneelers. Pavilion to left has stone slate roof, that to right is roofless.
Central section has 7 segmental arches with keystones. All are now blocked up and have boarded doors set in. The central arch is wider with a tall castellated dovecote tower above. It has a large quatrefoil with moulded surround, formerly the entry to the dovecote but now blocked up; and it once had a spire.
Interior of dovecote has many brick nesting boxes.
Belsay: English Heritage : HBMC : 1984.
Listing NGR: NZ0807378590
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