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Not far from Brenchly Gardens


LIPHOOK CRESCENT SE23


Folly Tower in back garden


TQ 3573 23/190


Circa 1880. Octagonal 3 storey tower of ironstone random rubble with

freestone dressings, ie quoins, drip mould at lst floor level, bowtell

moulding at 2nd floor and corbel table to low parapet (damaged). Octagonal staircase turret. Small, empty windows, with hollow chamfered elliptical stone arches, in chamfered square frames, 2 light on ground floor. Square doorway with hoodmould. Curiosity value.

That is absolutley smashing, I do hope it belongs to you.

I wonder what the history was and who built it, these were usually built as whims in large

houses with large gardens, It would be interesting to know what was there before

the houses on liphook were built.

certainly beats the conservatory for a conversation piece

lynne

The folly was built in about 1880 at the highest point of the garden of Tewkesbury Lodge, a large house on Honor Oak Road, obviously to take advantage of the spectacular views.

The folly is now in the back garden of a house at 23 Liphook Crescent, and listed grade II.


Tewkesbury Lodge was built in the early 1850s and demolished in about 1930.

Charles Bayer (1846-1930), who made a fortune out of ladies? underwear, lived in Tewkesbury Lodge from about 1890.

A little known fact is that Bayer intended to leave his house and grounds to the LCC so that they could incorporate it into Horniman Gardens.

The legal details had not been finalised by the time of his death and, not surprisingly, his beneficiaries decided to abandon these plans and sell the land to developers.

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