Folly, West End of North Walk, Linton Park, Kent Located at Tq 755 501 is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. Folly.

Folly, West End of North Walk, Linton Park, Kent Located at Tq 755 501

WRENN ID
slow-rotunda-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1987
Type
Folly
OS grid reference
TQ 754 500
Coordinates
51.2231, 0.51186
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a folly located at the west end of North Walk in Linton Park, Kent, dating from the mid-to-late 18th century. It is constructed of brick and rendered with channelled stucco, topped with a slate roof. The building is small, rectangular, and designed in a Gothick style, featuring a single storey. Each gable has moulded coping, and there are moulded pointed-arched doorways at both gable ends, which have clustered shafts on the jambs. The east face has three similar doorways that are stepped in height, while the west face is unbroken. Slender pinnacled pilaster buttresses are present at each corner and flanking the central opening on the east side.

Local climate

Folly, West End of North Walk, Linton Park, Kent Located at Tq 755 501 receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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