Folly Farm, Sulhamstead

Folly Farm is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Sulhamstead, West Berkshire, England.

The interior of the H's centre, which aligns east–west, is occupied by a two-storey, neoclassical style hall, which Lutyens painted black.

[4] Around 1912, Lutyens created the vernacular addition for new owners of the house, Zachary Merton and his wife Antonie,[5] who had both divorced from their former spouses to marry each other.

[6] His family had founded Metallgesellschaft in Germany and Henry R. Merton and Co. in Britain, which were among the leading metal trading companies of their respective countries.

[2] Antonie Merton allowed Lutyens and his family to spend the summer of 1916 at Folly Farm,[10] where they entertained Jekyll,[5] the playwright Edward Knoblock and the painters William Nicholson and his wife Mabel Pryde.

[2] The British celebrity cook Keith Floyd (1943 - 2009) was born at Folly Farm on 28 December 1943[12][circular reference].

Tank Court, with its cloister and pool, has been called "probably Lutyens's pièce de résistance in garden architecture".