cairanvanrooyen
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To those that have walked around the Mount Edgcumbe estate in Cornwall, this is a site you may be familiar with. This site overlooks the whole of Plymouth and is a truly beautiful location. Well worth a visit for a picnic and soak up the panoramic views.
From British Listed Buildings:
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.
From British Listed Buildings:
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.
