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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