Castle Hill Tower
Castle Hill Tower, also known as Thompson's Folly, is a historic structure in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England.
Thomas Thompson built a large house, known as Cottingham Castle, in 1816. Atop a hill in its grounds, he had a folly constructed, in the form of a Gothick tower. It served as a belvedere, with views stretching to the Humber Estuary. The house burned down in 1861, and its grounds were later developed as Castle Hill Hospital. The folly stands to its full height of 25 feet (7.6 m), but has lost its roof and floors, and its entrance has been bricked up. It was grade II listed in 1984.[1][2][3]
The tower is built of white brick on the exterior and red brick on the interior, with stone dressings, and is on a plinth. It has a moulded floor band, an eaves band, and an embattled parapet. There is an octagonal plan and two storeys. At ground floor level is a blocked square-headed doorway with a hood mould under a shield, and slit windows, while at upper floor level there are oblong windows under a continuous hood mould.[3][4]
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- ↑ Headley, Gwyn (2011). Follies of North & East Yorkshire. Heritage. ISBN 9781908619242.
- ↑ Young, Angus (14 January 2019). "The hidden 'fairy tale' castle just by Hull - and its curious history". Hull Daily Mail. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
- 1 2 Historic England. "Tower on Castle Hill, Cottingham (1103390)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David (1995) [1972]. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. The Buildings of England (2 ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09593-7.