Jack the Treacle Eater is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Folly.

Jack the Treacle Eater

WRENN ID
eternal-beam-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
Folly
Address
Jack the Treacle Eater, Long Lane (Off Rexe's Hollow), Barwick and Stoford
OS grid reference
ST 563 142
Coordinates
50.92569, -2.62296
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Jack the Treacle Eater is a folly built around 1775, made of local and Ham stone rubble and ashlar. It features a rough rubble arch approximately 5 meters high, topped with a circular tower constructed from cut and squared stone. The tower has a battlemented quasi-parapet and a conical stone roof, which is surmounted by a lead statuette of a winged Mercury. There is a blocked opening on the side of the tower, which leads to part of a rough stair. This structure serves as the east boundary marker, one of four, of the Barwick Park estate, likely erected by John Newman. The name 'Jack' refers to a local runner who delivered family messages to London and was said to have trained on treacle.

Local climate

Jack the Treacle Eater receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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