FOLLIES AUTUMN 2001

THORNHAM HALL by DICK KNIGHT

Thornham Hall (near Eye in Suffolk). The hall, a twentieth century building on the site of an older house, stands in Thornham Park, together with a superb, statuesque water tower topped by a slender lantern, a rather mysterious 'round house' an ice-house, and nineteenth century stables by E.H Lamb. The estate has been the country seat of the Barons of Hartismere and Henniker for three centuries, and the present lord Henniker has opened a large part of in to the public. In addition to the vestigial canals and thirteen mile of woodland walks and rides, the woods contain a Victorian kitchen garden (restored as a walled garden.

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The Folly was restored by Jack Penton in 1997 at a cost of £30,000