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
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farm buildings
- OS grid reference
- NZ 080 785
- Coordinates
- 55.10166, -1.87515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bantam Folly, located approximately 200 yards west of Belsay Castle, is a farm building constructed around 1757 for Sir William Middleton. It is built of ashlar with stone slate and asbestos roofs, designed in the Gothick style as a ferme ornée. The structure consists of nine bays arranged in five sections: 1:3:1:3:1.
The one-bay end pavilions feature boarded doors framed with architraves. Each pavilion has a gabled roof with flat coping and kneelers. The left pavilion has a stone slate roof, while the right pavilion is currently roofless.
The central section contains seven segmental arches with keystones, all of which are now blocked and have boarded doors installed. The central arch is wider and topped by a tall castellated dovecote tower. This tower features a large quatrefoil with a moulded surround, which was formerly the entry to the dovecote but is now blocked; it once had a spire.
Inside the dovecote, there are numerous brick nesting boxes.
Local climate
Bantam Folly, Approx 200 Yards West of Belsay Castle receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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