Follies · East of England
Britain's follies and eye-catchers
Garden buildings built to be seen, not used — the architecture of pure ego.
The folly tradition is uniquely British. Ten places where the brief was 'something to look at from the drawing-room window' — pineapples, sham castles, hermits' grottoes, eccentric towers and abandoned gothic ruins built that way deliberately.
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