Bantam Folly, Belsay, Northumberland.
Farm buildings. c.1757 for Sir William Middleton. Ashlar with stone slate and asbestos roofs. Gothick style. A ferme ornée. 9 bays in five sections:
1-bay end pavilions have boarded doors in architraves. Gabled roofs with flat coping and kneelers. Pavilion to left has stone slate roof, that to right is roofless.
Central section has 7 segmental arches with keystones. All are now blocked up and have boarded doors set in. The central arch is wider with a tall castellated dovecote tower above. It has a large quatrefoil with moulded surround, formerly the entry to the dovecote but now blocked up; and it once had a spire.
Interior of dovecote has many brick nesting boxes.