Lowe Stand is an 18th-century folly built for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and likely originally intended as a hunting lodge.[1] It is situated in the South Yorkshire town of Hoyland, 5miles southeast of Barnsley. Today the stand is a Grade II listed building but is in a fairly advanced state of decay.[1] In 2008 the deeds were handed over from the council to voluntary group, the Friends of Hoyland Lowe Stand (now the Lowe Stand Trust).[2] The council has given permission to restore it according to the plan produced.[3]