Folly in garden of Oakhurst (EHER 25828)

Early 19th century flint and brick Gothick style garden folly.

Garden house of the early 19th century. It is an octagonal, one storey, flint folly with brick quoins and a brick plinth. Some of the flints are vitrified and thought to have originated from a kiln in the grounds of the adjoining Aldeborough House which fired bricks for the windmill of 1805. It has a Gothick arched door with fanlight filled in with two doveholes, and a plank door with four Gothick windows with over-lapping glazing. Underneath the windows are panels of unknapped flints flanked by vitrified flints contrasting in colour and texture. Two sides have brick crosses and worn medieval corbel heads thought to have come from Tilty Abbey. There is an armorial shield over the door. To the rear is a round-headed blocked doorcase but internally the original Gothick headed shape is visible. Three sides of the brick work have been renewed from Roman cement ceiling. The floor is of cross sections of whole tree trunks. <1>