Folly 70 Metres South West of Crimplesham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. Folly.

Folly 70 Metres South West of Crimplesham Hall

WRENN ID
ragged-lantern-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1985
Type
Folly
OS grid reference
TF 647 038
Coordinates
52.60732, 0.43125
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The folly, located 70 meters south-west of Crimplesham Hall, dates from the 1840s and is constructed from gault brick and ashlar with slate roofs. It features a ruined rectangular area, with a Campanile in Italian style to the north. The structure incorporates many re-used medieval fragments, including three 14th-century doorway arches, one 13th-century doorway arch, and several early Perpendicular windows.

A free-standing arched doorway to the south, supported by diagonal buttresses, leads to an open courtyard, which is accessed through a similar arched doorway. An arched door on the west side opens to an ornamental lake, above which is a three-light cusped early Perpendicular window. The south wall has further two-light cusped windows.

To the north, the Campanile is entered through an undercut 13th-century doorway. Above this doorway is a re-set 14th-century cross-legged seated figure beneath a canopy, set within a triangular-headed niche of fine quality. There are additional arched doorways to the east and north of the Campanile. The tower rises in three stepped stages, pierced at intervals by lancets and featuring occasional corbelling. An open timber bellcote is situated under a spirelet.

Inside, there is a first-floor room with a barrel vault and a fireplace with re-used jambs decorated with shields and emblems in trefoils. The mosaic floor is made of cobbles and horses' teeth, some split longitudinally and others transversely, forming a hollow-sided octagon.

Local climate

Folly 70 Metres South West of Crimplesham Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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