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Latitude: 50.3512 / 50°21'4"N
Longitude: -4.1688 / 4°10'7"W
OS Eastings: 245799
OS Northings: 52396
OS Grid: SX457523
Mapcode National: GBR NV.W90B
Mapcode Global: FRA 2843.RP0
Plus Code: 9C2Q9R2J+FF
Entry Name: The Folly
Listing Date: 23 January 1968
Last Amended: 26 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1329143
English Heritage Legacy ID: 61874
ID on this website: 101329143
Location: Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cornwall, PL10
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Maker-with-Rame
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Maker
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Folly
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/217 The Folly (formerly listed as the
Folly Ruins)
23.1.68
GV II
Folly. Probably late C18/early C19, incorporating re-used granite details.
Sandstone rubble incorporating earlier features in granite and metamorphic stone.
Rectangular plan, constructed as a ruin, roofless, with a viewing platform at first
floor reached by steps to rear.
Front has 2-light window set at upper level, with cusped lights, upper Y-tracery and
roll-moulded jambs, with 2 carved grotesque masks as corbels. Set free-standing to
right, a square-plan pier with a granite crocketted pinnacle to top. Right side has
pointed arched window to right, to upper level left the cill and jambs of a larger
window opening. Left side has plain granite doorway with lintel but no walling
over, at upper level to right a 2-light cusped window, only one light remaining.
Rear has roll-moulded oval granite window with recessed spandrels, probably 2 re-
used doorheads, the bottom one set upside down.
Interior A granite winder stair leads to the viewing platform, which probably
formerly had rails to rear.
Situated on a conspicuous hilltop site in Mount Edgcumbe Park, overlooking Plymouth
Sound.
Listing NGR: SX4579952396
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