Follies of Essex (Follies of England Book 13)

Follies. NT Live. £16 standard £ concession, £13 members. Book now Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this.
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Originally built in as a ruin, this unique Grade II listed building has been sympathetically transformed into two lovely, detached gatehouses yet retaining all the visual appearances of a ruin. Centrally located for exploring the North Yorkshire coast, moors and wolds, the historic town of Filey is only 3 miles distant, with its wide sandy beach and all the attractions of a popular seaside resort.

Scarborough and Bridlington are both easily accessible, as is the beautiful city of York. There is a 9-hole golf course locally, fishing available nearby, and an RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs providing interest for bird-watchers. There are plenty of local shops and pubs within walking distance, and good railway links. Cosy living room with rug on stone floor, Gothic arched windows and insets in walls, vaulted ceiling and original Gothic archway leading to grounds.

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Bathroom with shower over whirlpool bath and toilet. Registered in England and Wales. GB 22 99 English Country Cottages is part of the family English Country Cottages offers the finest collection of holiday cottages, all chosen for their character, luxury and heritage. Special Offers Why Country Cottages? In , Oxfordshire acquired one of the most famous folly towers in Britain, when the town of Faringdon was transferred from neighbouring Berkshire.

It is ft tall and was completed in despite strenuous local opposition, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Lord Berners, was a talented and eccentric musician who drove around with a harpsichord built into his Rolls Royce.

When the council met to decide whether to grant planning permission, one Admiral Clifton Browne bellowed that it would totally destroy the view from his house. When the counsel for Lord Berners pointed out that the proposed tower could only possibly be seen from house with a telescope, the sailor retorted that being an admiral he only ever looked at the view through a telescope.

Britain's follies: a list of some of the best

It was originally cream but that has washed away and, after many years derelict, it was reopened in summer , allowing the public to climb to the top. The most memorable factor behind this folly, one of the finest in Britain, is the legend of how it came to be built.

The first chain of defensive works

It is not known if the legend is true. There is evidence of that suggests the building was used for execution by firing squad or target practice, as one side bears several distinct musket-ball marks. In , the Smoke Abatement Act made it necessary to build tall chimneys to carry smoke away and plans were drawn up. The slender tower rises ft and is decorated with both gothic and neo-renaissance features.

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A rival claimed Wainhouse only built the tower to keep an eye on his activities. The village of Thorpeness, north of Aldeburgh, is unusual in that it was built in its entirety as a speculative development holiday centre. The old fishing hamlet of Thorpe was acquired by G. Ogilvie wanted to disguise a water tower so built a five-storey house to brilliantly disguise the 30, gallon water tank. The tank was recreated as a clapboard house with a pitched roof, chimneys and sham windows, perched incongruously on top of a 60ft tower. When she recited this to Ogilvie one evening at dinner he was enchanted, and exclaimed: The folly is now let as holiday accommodation.

Thorpeness is now on mains water. Just off the High Street in Headington, east of Oxford, is a row of terraced houses, undistinguished apart from the 25ft basking shark which has plummeted through the roof of number two and become transfixed in an upstairs bedroom. Bill Heine, a cinema owner who had a chat show on Radio Oxford, was the bane of local councillors. When questioned on why he had done it, he said: It is in the shape of a small domed sugar loaf, topped with a small ball finial, infrequently whitewashed and scarred with graffiti.

It is thought to be solid and to have been built in by Colonel Gaskell as a monument to the Battle of Waterloo. Being small, white and visible, White Nancy has had to suffer various indignities over the years at the hands of the locals who, one Christmas, painted it as a plum pudding.

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Peterlee was a new town, planned in its entirety in the s, and built around an uncompromising concrete modernist sculpture designed by Victor Pasmore, a fine arts professor. Since its inception, it has proven controversial. The structure soon became a shabby dump.