Description:In 1628 Rotton Park was bought by a wealthy landowner from Belbroughton in Worcestershire, called Humphrey Perrott. In 1737 John, the last of the Perrotts, inherited the estate. He was about 35 years old and had a daughter, Catherine, but no sons. This is the Perrott to whom the word Folly was umbilically joined. John Perrott became so attached to Rotton Park that he preferred to live in the old hunting lodge on the estate rather than at the family home in Belbroughton. In fact it was here that he died in April 1776, just as the Americans were beginning their war of independence.