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The Tattingstone Wonder is a 
folly
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
Eighteenth-cent ...
at Tattingstone
Tattingstone is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. It is situated on the Shotley peninsula, about south of Ipswich. The 2011 Census recorded the population as 540.
History
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the toponym as ''Tatitu ...
in Suffolk
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, England
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Located some south of Ipswich
Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...
the Tattingstone Wonder was originally two cottages. In 1790 Edward White, the local squire
In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight. Boys served a knight as an attendant, doing simple but important tasks such as saddling a horse or caring for the knight's weapons and armour.
Terminology
''Squire'' ...
, did not like his view of the cottages from Tattingstone Place. He decided to add a third cottage and finished them to look like a church by adding a fake tower and flint façade. It has become a famous Suffolk landmark.
References
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