Comments on: The Summerhouse, Long Melford, Suffolk https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21648 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:01:01 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21648 In reply to Charles Cowling.

Hello Charles. Yes, that’s exactly what I thought. Or a character by Sheridan or Garrick and Colman.

]]> By: Charles Cowling https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21642 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:57:11 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21642 Sir Cordell Firebrace. What a marvellous, Osbert Lancaster-y name!

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21515 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:25:33 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21515 In reply to Moira Garland.

Hello Moira and thanks. The National Trust keep the building in good repair so it should be around for us to admire for a while yet.

]]> By: Moira Garland https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21512 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 16:59:41 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21512 In reply to Editor.

Wow, such an old folly! Thanks again for another good read about a decorative structure, kept in such good nick too.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21492 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:51:02 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21492 In reply to Nic Orchard.

Morning Nic. I’m very happy that you plan to add rutilant to your vocabulary. I can’t remember where I read it and noted it for future use. It really is a friendly little building.

]]> By: Nic Orchard https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21478 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:19:29 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21478 Rutilant now becomes my word of the week. Plagiaristically, I suppose.

That this is Tudor, not early Victorian, makes it so very much more huggable, somehow.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21467 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:35:23 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21467 In reply to TOM GARDNER.

Hello Tom. I’m afraid you will have to join the queue. Quite a few readers seem keen to make this their home!

]]> By: TOM GARDNER https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21466 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:58:05 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21466 TOM (NYC)
YES! YES!! YES!!!
AT LAST! YOU’VE FOUND MY DREAM … ‘SUMMER’ HOUSE.

A ONE ROOM STRUCTURE, SET IN THE ‘TENDED’ – GARDEN OF TRANQUILITY …

– WHAT MORE COULD ONE ASK FOR?

(PERHAPS … A ‘WATER CLOSET ON THE LOWER LEVEL)

MERCY BUCKETS!

TOM

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21457 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:35:38 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21457 In reply to David Turner Rhodes.

Good morning David and thank you. That sounds like a perfect day. Have fun!

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-summerhouse-long-melford-suffolk/#comment-21456 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:34:20 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=14925#comment-21456 In reply to ACM.

That’s very kind. Thank you for letting me know that you enjoy my weekly stories.

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