Brown'S Folly is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Folly. 1 related planning application.
Brown'S Folly
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-mullion-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Folly
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 76 NE 1/112
MONKTON FARLEIGH BATHFORD HILL (north side) Brown's Folly
II
Partly in Bathford C.P., Avon. Folly. 1848 by Mr. Wade Brown. Coursed rubble stone with shallow hipped Welsh slate roof. Tapered square tower with offset top stage. Square-headed doorway with C20 steel door on south side, datestone inscribed W 1848 B/ C 1903 H, oculus below top stage on north, east and south sides. Top stage has round-arched openings with keystones and balustraded handrails, the balustrading missing on north and west sides. Roof on deep bracketed eaves with chamfered stone cornice below. Built as an eyecatcher, reputedly to use agricultural labour during a slack time, commands fine views over Bath and the Avon valley, Wade Brown lived at Monkton Farleigh Manor House (q.v.) in 1840s.
Listing NGR: ST7948066060
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