My other home is a folly !

Framlingham Mere is a nature reserve and has a lake and wet meadows adjoining Framlingham Castle. There are many birds and flora! Framlingham castle is early motte and bailey or ringwork Norman castle. In the 15thC artificial meres were built around the castle, which was expanded with new brickwork including some odd out of place chimneys ! We embrace a quiet walk around the mere avoiding the cows!

Ickworth House is a large Italianate NT country house set in large parkland ! Originally it had been planned as an art gallery but the Earl's collection was seized by Napoleon. As one of England's more unusual houses, Ickworth has been unflatteringly described as resembling "a huge bulk, newly arrived from another planet" and as "an overgrown folly". The rotunda is the feature ! The central rotunda is 105 ft. high with a domed and balustraded roof. The building is accessed through the central entrance ionic pedimented portico. The rotunda is decorated with pilasters, the lower are Ionic and Corinthian above. The ground and first floor and the third floor and the balustraded parapet are divided friezes bas-relief. It’s quite a place !

Rendlesham has a folly that’s now a house ! Woodbridge lodge !
Gothic meets modernity at this unique Suffolk home, which combines a grade II-listed folly with a glass addition by architect Hugh Pilkington.The lodge was constructed in 1806 by architect James Wyatt in the grounds of Rendlesham Hall, demolished in 1871. It has some bizarre flying buttresses that probably ever serve a useful purpose ! Though the estate is long gone, the folly was revived as part of the award-winning Woodbridge Lodge in the 1990s. All for £780,000! Great spiel online ! https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/woodb…Read more