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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 SE 328
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:LINTON Folly, Linton Park, (located at TQ 755 501)

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1733 to 1799 LINTON Folly, west end of North Walk, Linton Park, Kent located at TQ 755 501) (Formerly listed as Folly at about TQ 756 506) name ammended 27/04/2016.


Grid Reference:TQ 7549 5009
Map Sheet:TQ75SE
Parish:LINTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • FOLLY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1733 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1263363: FOLLY, WEST END OF NORTH WALK, LINTON PARK, KENT LOCATED AT TQ 755 501

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FOLLY at about TQ 756 506 LINTON 3/133 TQ 756 506 GV II
Folly. Mid-to-late C18. Brick, rendered with channelled stucco. Slate roof. Small and rectangular in a Gothick style. Single storey. Gables with moulded coping to each face. Moulded pointed-arched open doorway to each gable end with clustered shafts to jambs. 3 similar doorways, stepped in height, spanning east face. West face unbroken. Slender pinnacled pilaster buttresses to each corner, and flanking central opening to east.
Listing NGR: TQ7560050600

Description from record TQ 75 SE 37 :
c.TQ 756 506 Folly, Linton Park. Mid to late C18 (shown but not named on OS 1:2500, 1967). (For full description see list) (1)

From Historic Englands National Heritage List for England:
"Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/04/2016

TQ 75 SE 3/133

LINTON Folly, west end of North Walk, Linton Park, Kent located at TQ 755 501)

(Formerly listed as Folly at about TQ 756 506)

GV II Folly. Mid-to-late C18. Brick, rendered with channelled stucco. Slate roof. Small and rectangular in a Gothick style. Single storey. Gables with moulded coping to each face. Moulded pointed-arched open doorway to each gable end with clustered shafts to jambs. 3 similar doorways, stepped in height, spanning east face. West face unbroken. Slender pinnacled pilaster buttresses to each corner, and flanking central opening to east.

Listing NGR: TQ7549750099 " (2)


<1> DOE (HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 26 Feb 1987 69 (OS Card Reference). SKE40296.

<2> Historic England, National Heritage List for England (Index). SKE29372.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 26 Feb 1987 69.
<2>XYIndex: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. [Mapped feature: #28710 Folly, ]

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