Folly facade to The Jungle
The Jungle, 2/8 Harby Lane, Eagle Moor, Lincoln, LN6 9DS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061998
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Folly facade to The Jungle
- Statutory Address:
- The Jungle, 2/8 Harby Lane, Eagle Moor, Lincoln, LN6 9DS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061998
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-2022
- List Entry Name:
- Folly facade to The Jungle
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Jungle, 2/8 Harby Lane, Eagle Moor, Lincoln, LN6 9DS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Jungle, 2/8 Harby Lane, Eagle Moor, Lincoln, LN6 9DS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- North Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eagle and Swinethorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SK8833668599
Summary
The folly façade of The Jungle, built about 1820 for Samuel Russell Collett in the form of a sham castle.
Reasons for Designation
The folly façade to The Jungle is listed at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:
Architectural Interest:
* For its unusual and whimsical design in the form of a sham castle;
* For its skilful design, construction and craftsmanship which gives the intentional impression of a romantic ruin.
Historic Interest:
* For its survival as a rare example of an early-C19 picturesque folly facade fronting a dwelling.
History
The Jungle was built in the early C19 for Samuel Russell Collett. It was composed of a brick farmhouse which featured a picturesque façade in the form of a ruinous castle. The house was described in an account by Major-General Lofts in 1826, who noted that Collett had established a small private zoo in the parkland around the Jungle where he kept deer, buffalo, pheasants and kangaroos.
By the end of the C19 the building was composed of a roughly rectangular block orientated on a north-south axis, with ancillary wings projecting north-east. This form appears to have changed very little until the late C20 when the house behind the west façade was demolished. A new mansion was built behind the folly in 1976 (not included in the listing).
Details
The folly façade of The Jungle, built about 1820 for Samuel Russell Collett in the form of a sham castle.
MATERIALS: the façade is built of overburnt brick rubble with timber and stone dressings.
PLAN: the frontage of the Jungle is situated to the west side of the building and is orientated on a north-south axis. The building to the rear of the façade is not included in this List entry.
EXTERIOR: the folly facade of The Jungle is in the form of a sham castle set over two storeys and is roughly crenelated, with square and half round turrets at either end. The square, south turret has arrow slits. The north, half round turret has pointed arch windows with sashes complete with glazing bars. In the centre is a bowed porch featuring a low, teardrop shaped door. To the left of the porch is a doorway through a pointed stone arch. The window and door frames between the turrets are made of oak branches forming rough gothick ogee arches with crazed leaded lights within Y-bars. The branches forming the frame of the window above the porch join at the sill forming an oval shape.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 192135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 262
Websites
List Entry for The Jungle, Harby Lane, accessed 10 February 2022 from https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061998?section=official-listing
Other
Lincolnshire HER record for The Jungle, Eagle - HER number MLI80449
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building but not coloured blue on the map, are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act. In this case the building to the rear of the west facade is not to be treated as part of the listed building. However, any works to these structures which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require Listed Building Consent (LBC) and this is a matter for the Local Planning Authority (LPA) to determine.
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