The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West Of Barwick House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Folly.
The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West Of Barwick House
- WRENN ID
- under-doorway-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Folly
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST51SE BARWICK CP BARWICK PARK
5/6 The Rose Tower, 440 metres West of Barwick House (formerly listed as Obelisk in Barwick Park North of Church) 19.4.61
GV II
Folly. Circa 1775, Local stone rubble with Ham stone ashlar. Circular podium of about 4 metres diameter and 0.6 metres high, on which stands a hollow circular drum, about 4-metres high, pierced with three pointed arches with bands of rectangular openings at about 1.25 metres intervals, the top 2-metres being in fine ashlar with a ball finial, the whole being approximately 20-metres high. The West boundary marker of the Barwick Park estate, probably erected by John Newman. The most spectacular of the four follies set on the cardinal point axes through Barwick House (qv), it features in three paintings dated between 1770 and 1780. (Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes, Constable 1974.)
Listing NGR: ST5562114253
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