Follies & Garden Features Architectural Features

Follies originated as flights of fancy and imagination, buildings set out in the landscapes of the great estates, often located a few miles away from the main house and gardens. Their main purpose to demand attention and impress, sometimes used as tea houses disguised as Roman and Greek Temples celebrating Antiquity, at their heyday in the 18th century garden. Early Victorian pavilions and gazebos in charming rusticated designs and traditional Japanese pagoda summer houses are still popular and rare finds. (Gosport Water Tower – summer houses. Ollerton, Bandstands)

Wood and iron bridges are popular in water gardens used to imitate Monet’s Giverney garden. Currently fashionable ‘dry’ water gardens where both pebble river beds, large natural stone rocks and unusual items such as ammonites and geological forms can all be created from MASCo’s stock of great finds and features salvaged by the MASCo team to create the heritage gardens of the future.