Folly to North 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. 1 related planning application.
Folly to North of Morland House
- WRENN ID
- old-bonework-rowan
- 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 North of Morland House, Susan Wood, BR7 5NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 434 697
- Coordinates
- 51.40824, 0.06085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This garden folly dates to circa 1860 and was built as one of a pair of towers by George Baskcomb for his landscape garden. It was constructed using reject bricks from works within the Chislehurst Caves, with stone dressings. The folly is a Gothic-style tower of four storeys, circular in plan, with a circular stair turret. It features arrowslit openings on each floor. The ground floor has three round-headed openings to the main tower and one to the stair turret. Remains of a stone spiral staircase with open treads are present. The roof and floors were missing at the time of survey.
Local climate
Folly to North 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- 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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