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Nicholas Coleridge: How I created Britain's grandest garden shed

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Melford Hall in Suffolk, where the 17th-century brick banqueting hall was a potential inspiration. My wife Georgia and I drove over one Saturday morning with friends, and the mellow Tudor brick of the building and the light-filled spaces inside were inspiring indeed.Architectural follies, or eye-catchers, hit peak popularity in the 18th and early 19th centuries; there are thought to be at least two thousand of them in the UK, dotted across parkland and on clifftops, in numerous guises: classical temples, faux ruined castles, observatories and pineapple-shaped banqueting houses.

Strictly speaking, follies should serve no purpose beyond delighting the eye, or as a backdrop for picnics and parties, but a classical home office hardly seemed to.

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