Folly View is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1981. House.
Folly View
- WRENN ID
- unlit-chalk-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1981
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Folly View is a former lodging house for eight estate workers, which also included a superintendent's residence. It was built around 1860 by E.G. Bruton for Christ Church College, Oxford. The building is constructed from squared and coursed limestone with a rock-faced finish, featuring slate roofs and stone chimneys. It is designed in a rustic Gothick style, characterized by steeply pitched roofs and pointed arches over narrow windows.
The structure is two storeys high and has a two-bay front facing the road, with the left bay being gabled. This bay includes a three-light ground floor window with cushion capitals on shafts between the lights, a two-light first floor window with a stop-chamfered stone mullion, and an arched vent slit in the gable. The right bay features a single light arched slit window, an arched doorway with a 20th-century board door, and a small round window or vent just below the eaves. The left side of the building has arched ground floor windows and catslide semi-dormers on the front bays, along with a projection that has a similar roof and windows, as well as an arched door beyond. Folly View is part of a group of buildings originally constructed for housing estate workers.
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