Folly Made Up From Fragments Of Burton Abbey

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.