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Turret

Designed landscape, folly

What is recorded here

Centrally placed within a ringwork (KK023-080----) with good views in all directions. Indicated as 'Turret (in ruins)' on OS 6-inch map (1947 revised edition). A late 18th/19th-century, two-storey octagonal structure (int. diam. 5.5m; wall T 0.6m) constructed of limestone rubble with brick employed around the window reveal, first-floor fireplace and chimney. There is a ground-floor entrance at N with fenestration comprising ten round-headed windows; five on each floor. Additional features include first-floor timbers in situ and a rectangular aumbrey in the NW wall. Visible on aerial photograph (GB89.P.16) surmounting the earlier ringwork. See attached: KK023-080001-_01 Folly from the ESE (26 October 1994) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 January 2012

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