Folly in Grounds of Beane River View (Beane River View Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Folly. 1 related planning application.
Folly in Grounds of Beane River View (Beane River View Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- dusk-shingle-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Folly in Grounds of Beane River View (Beane River View Not Included), Port Vale, Hertford, SG14 3AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 321 127
- Coordinates
- 51.79773, -0.08437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a folly located in the grounds of Beane River View, constructed around 1848. It is made of yellow stock brick with stone and artificial stone dressings and is designed in a Neo-Romanesque style, resembling an ornamental ruin. The structure features a three-storey circular tower topped with a machicolated design and a projecting Lombard frieze. It has slit windows with artificial stone heads, quoins, and sills, and includes buttresses that give the appearance of 'ruined' walls.
The ground floor showcases a semicircular-headed Norman style doorway, which is adorned with cushion capitals on colonnettes and a rope-moulded head. To the west, there is a single-storey extension made of rubble and artificial stone, featuring an external staircase leading to the first floor. This staircase runs over an elaborate Norman style semicircular archway that has triple colonnette reveals, cushion capitals, a moulded impost band, and decorative bands including twine and ball, dog tooth, and bird beak moulding below the outer drip mould.
Historically, this folly was built in the extended garden area of No. 2 North Road, which was acquired by Thomas Smith in the 1840s. This area included five acres of picturesque gardens and the island between the river and the Sele Mill stream. After 1945, ownership of the property was divided, and the folly is now situated within the grounds of a recently developed sheltered housing and nursing home for the elderly.
Local climate
Folly in Grounds of Beane River View (Beane River View Not Included) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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