Folly Made Up from Fragments of Burton Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1967. A Medieval Folly.
Folly Made Up from Fragments of Burton Abbey
- WRENN ID
- south-casement-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1967
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Folly Made Up from Fragments of Burton Abbey, Newton Road, Newton Solney
- OS grid reference
- SK 277 252
- Coordinates
- 52.82429, -1.59021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This structure is a folly made from fragments of Burton Abbey, located on the south side of Newton Road in Newton Solney. It is constructed from re-used medieval masonry and 19th-century materials, featuring coursed squared sandstone and sandstone ashlar. The folly has an irregular rectangular shape, with a wall extending from one corner. It includes plain pointed arches on three sides of a square tower-like structure, which is believed to have served as the 'porter's lodge'. The arches are unmoulded, and there is an arrow slit on the fourth side. A diagonal buttress with two set-offs is positioned at the northeast angle, and there is a piece of walling to the northwest that has a half arch corbelled out to the east. This folly was built as a garden ornament for Newton Park.
Local climate
Folly Made Up from Fragments of Burton Abbey receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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