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Latitude: 55.5335 / 55°32'0"N
Longitude: -2.5764 / 2°34'34"W
OS Eastings: 363719
OS Northings: 626797
OS Grid: NT637267
Mapcode National: GBR B4GG.06
Mapcode Global: WH8Y9.D5DR
Plus Code: 9C7VGCMF+CF
Entry Name: Baron's Folly, Down Law
Listing Name: Baron's Folly
Listing Date: 7 November 2007
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348624
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15099
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200348624
Location: Roxburgh
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Jedburgh and District
Parish: Roxburgh
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Folly
1780-90. Octagonal summerhouse and observatory with piended roof surmounted by iron finial. Gothick pointed window openings on three sides, boarded up. Later wooden door to NE. Random rubble with dark whinstone pinnings and rusticated quoins on window and door openings. Welsh slate roof.
Interior walls retain remains of plaster. Wooden floor and boarded roof with trusses in radial pattern.
Prominently situated on summit of Down Law within the Fairnington estate. Baron's Folly was built as a summerhouse and observatory by Baron Robert Rutherford, merchant, into whose hands the estate of Fairnington passed in c.1777. It is described as a summerhouse on John Ainslie's 'Map of the Southern Part of Scotland' of 1821 but by 1843 is recorded as 'Baron's Folly'. It is visible from several miles away from every direction and is an important feature in the landcape.
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