Survey Data
Reg No
40909951
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
St. Ernan's
Original Use
Folly
Date
1820 - 1830
Coordinates
190798, 375775
Date Recorded
01/12/2011
Date Updated
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Description
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.
Appraisal
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.