Follies were a particular enthusiasm of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when landowners with ambition and leisure commissioned sham ruins, towers, grottos, and hermitages to punctuate their estates and signal a certain cultivated sensibility. That one stands here, catalogued and recognised, is itself a small fact worth pausing over.

Beyond its classification as part of a designed landscape, the specific history of this particular folly, its builder, its date, its form, and whatever whim or fashion prompted its construction, remains to be drawn out from deeper local research. The designed landscape as a category encompasses the planned grounds of country houses, demesnes, and estates, spaces shaped by human intention rather than agriculture or accident, and the presence of a folly within such a landscape suggests that whoever held this land at some point had the resources and the inclination to ornament it deliberately.