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Large Estate Around Thorpeness Is Being Sold Including The Local Golf Course

1977 , Thorpeness (Suffolk)

Cat no. 99953

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Scenes of Thorpeness Golf Club, windmill, water tower and mere.

Shots taken to accompany a news story that a large estate around Thorpeness is for sale, including the golf course. Scenes of two female golfers walking to the course, the Thorpeness Golf Club building and the white windmill with the fantail turning. The House in the Clouds water tower is shown behind the windmill fantail, and then a shot up the exterior of the weather-boarded tower with the appearance of a house at the top. By the Mere, the camera pans from the Boathouse with its clock tower to a smaller pond where a girl plays with ducks. Finally, two children in a rowing boat on the choppy water of the Mere.

Featured Buildings

Thorpeness Golf Club

Keywords

Planning; Sport; Golf; Water towers; Windmills; Lakes

Background Information

The House in the Clouds is a water tower at Thorpeness, Suffolk, England. It was built in 1923 to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill and was designed with the tank disguised behind the appearance of a weatherboarded building in keeping with mock-Tudor and Jacobean style of Thorpeness.

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Large Estate Around Thorpeness Is Being Sold Including The Local Golf Course

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