Follies Gallery

Choose from 22 images in our Follies Collection

Druids temple 28861_036
Reproduction of a Druids temple built for William Danby of Swinton Castle, circa 1800, North Yorkshire, 2016

Jack the Treacle Eater
Folly, the east boundary marker of the Barwick Park Estate, Somerset, built circa 1775. Rough rubble arch of about 5-metres high, crowned with a circular tower in cut and squared stone

The Folly
Constructed as a ruin and situated on a conspicuous hilltop site in Mount Edgcumbe Park, overlooking Plymouth Sound. IoE 61874

The Sugar Loaf 29489_015
The Sugar Loaf, Brightling Park, East Sussex. An early 19th century folly also know as " Fullers point"

Broadway Tower CC56_00795
BROADWAY TOWER, Worcestershire. Looking up the hill toward the folly tower built by the Earl of Coventry in 1800, consisting of three round turrets and three canted sides

Mow Cop Castle
Ruinous folly built as a summer house. IoE 273340

Kit Hill Folly DP348625
Kit Hill, Folly, Stokeclimsland, Cornwall. Oblique aerial view from the south, taken using a drone, showing the Folly at Kit Hill

Constable Mausoleum 28892_041
Constable Mausoleum, 1792-1802 by Thomas Atkinson of York, completed by his son John, for Sir Edward Constable, Halsham, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2016. TA2727

Constable Mausoleum 28892_031
Constable Mausoleum, 1792-1802 by Thomas Atkinson of York, completed by his son John, for Sir Edward Constable, Halsham, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2016. TA2727

Hoober Stand 28935_053
Hoober Stand, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Photographed in March 2017

Keppels Column DP290696
Keppel's Column, Admirals Crest, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Vertical drone photography of the newly-restored Keppel's Column, looking down onto its viewing platform

Charborough Tower 35074_014
Charborough Tower and steps, a folly built in 1790 and heightened in 1839, Dorset, 2021

Constable Mausoleum 28892_049
Constable Mausoleum, 1792-1802 by Thomas Atkinson of York, completed by his son John, for Sir Edward Constable, Halsham, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2016. TA2727

Deer shelter 28860_019
Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park, County Durham, 2016. NZ2130

Little Temple 34098_014
Little Temple, Temple Newsam Park, Leeds, 2019. A 1760s small prostyle temple most probably designed by Capability Brown. SE3632

Rivington Pike Tower 33762_045
Rivington Pike Tower, Lancashire, 2019. SD6413

Devizes Castle 29613_010
Devizes Castle, a Victorian folly built on the motte of the original castle, Wiltshire, 2015

Rockingham Mausoleum 28940_080
Rockingham Mausoleum, Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Photographed in May 2017

Broadway Tower
Folly. 1798 by James Wyatt for Lord Coventry on the edge of the Cotswolds. Broadway, Worcestershire. IoE 399014

The Pepperbox
Occupies a prominent position on Pepperbox Hill. Also known as Eyres Folly. IoE 319790

Horton Tower 27564_038
Horton Tower, Dorset. An 18th century brick-built observatory

Blaise Castle a98_04343
BLAISE CASTLE, Henbury, Bristol. This folly castle was built by Thomas Farr in 1766 on the top of Castle Hill. It was originally used as a summer house by the Harford family who owned the estate

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