
What is recorded here
Detached single-bay two-storey former bathing house/folly (on square-plan) associated with St. Ernan’s House (see 40909919), built c. 1830, having rubble stone wall with integral square-headed entrance adjacent to the north-west. Roof hidden behind crenellated parapet. Rubble stone walls with square-headed openings, no fittings remaining. Located on the south-west tip of St. Ernan’s Island and to the south-west of St. Ernan’s House. Rubble stone boundary walls surround island, rocky foreshore and beach adjacent to the south and south-west. Possible series of stepping stones adjacent to the south.
This interesting former bathing house was originally associated with St. Ernan’s House (see 40909951). It is built in the form of a crenellated folly or ruin, and is a feature of some picturesque merit to the south-west corner of wooded St. Ernan’s Island.
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
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