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.
Places in this guide
★ Iconic📷 5Follies · Central Scotland
The Dunmore Pineapple
An 18th-century garden folly topped with a giant stone pineapple — Scotland's strangest building.
📷 5Follies · East Midlands
Rushton Triangular Lodge
Rushton Triangular Lodge — a Grade I-listed folly in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
📷 5Memorials & monuments · Northern Ireland
Mussenden Temple
Mussenden Temple is a memorial in the United Kingdom.
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