The Folly at St Michaels Convent (Formely Known As Park Hill) is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1998. Folly.
The Folly at St Michaels Convent (Formely Known As Park Hill)
- WRENN ID
- narrow-pinnacle-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lambeth
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North MP: Steve Reed (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1998
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- The Folly at St Michaels Convent (Formely Known As Park Hill), Streatham Common North Sw16
- OS grid reference
- TQ 309 712
- Coordinates
- 51.42514, -0.11835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Folly at St Michael's Convent, formerly known as Park Hill, is a folly built after 1875 and before 1899, likely for Sir Henry Tate. It is designed in the Perpendicular style and constructed from stock brick and earlier red bricks, rendered in concrete to resemble ashlar, with ashlar quoins. The structure features an octagonal tower that stands about 25 to 30 feet high and measures approximately 15 feet across. It has a two-centred arched door leading to a ground floor chamber. An open upper storey can be accessed by a flight of steps that crosses a stone four-centred arch, which has simple trefoiled spandrels and a hood mould. The tower includes some lancet windows and cruciform arrow slits made of porous rock. Attached to the tower is a wall with a two-centred arched entrance and cast iron spear railings. At the time of the survey, the folly was heavily overgrown with creepers. The tower offers panoramic views over Streatham. The grounds of Park Hill were landscaped in the late 19th century by Robert Marnock.
Local climate
The Folly at St Michaels Convent (Formely Known As Park Hill) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% 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, 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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