Baron's Folly, Down Law is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 November 2007. Summerhouse, observatory.
Baron's Folly, Down Law
- WRENN ID
- western-pedestal-hawthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 November 2007
- Type
- Summerhouse, observatory
- OS grid reference
- NT 637 267
- Coordinates
- 55.53354, -2.57637
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Baron's Folly, located at Down Law, is an octagonal summerhouse and observatory built between 1780 and 1790. It features a piended roof topped with an iron finial. The structure has Gothick pointed window openings on three sides, which are currently boarded up, and there is a later wooden door on the northeast side. The exterior is constructed from random rubble with dark whinstone pinnings and rusticated quoins around the window and door openings, and it has a Welsh slate roof.
Inside, the walls still show remnants of plaster, and the flooring is wooden. The boarded roof includes trusses arranged in a radial pattern.
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