Folly to West of Morland House is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1997. Garden folly.
Folly to West of Morland House
- WRENN ID
- blind-quartz-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Eltham and Chislehurst MP: Clive Efford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1997
- Type
- Garden folly
- Address
- Folly to West of Morland House, Susan Wood
- OS grid reference
- TQ 434 696
- Coordinates
- 51.40793, 0.06057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The folly to the west of Morland House is a garden structure built around 1860. It is one of a pair of towers created by George Baskcomb for his landscape garden, constructed using reject bricks sourced from the nearby Chislehurst Caves. The tower is designed in a Gothic style and features two storeys, with a circular exterior and an octagonal interior on the upper floor. It has four turrets that include lancet openings, conical stone caps, and stepped conical pendants. The first floor is adorned with a Romanesque style two-light window, while the ground floor has lancet openings and two Romanesque style arches supported by clustered columns. The interior is lined with Roman cement, although the roof and floor were missing at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Folly to West of Morland House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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