Rothley Castle is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. Folly. 2 related planning applications.
Rothley Castle
- WRENN ID
- kindled-hammer-pine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- NZ 043 887
- Coordinates
- 55.19295, -1.93283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rothley Castle is a folly built around 1755 by Daniel Garrett for Sir Walter Blackett. It is constructed of random rubble in a Gothick style and features a canted screen wall that stretches approximately 60 yards along the top of a hill, flanked by square end towers and a larger square central tower.
The central tower is two storeys high and has a tall pointed-arched doorway, with flanking blocked lower arches that form niches. Above the doorway is a cruciform slit, with the arms of the cross designed as mouchettes. The tower has very large, rough, close-set corbels and is roofless, with similar arched niches on each of its other sides.
The screen walls reach about 8 feet in height in some areas, although they are ruinous in others. Five cruciform slits remain visible. The end towers feature pointed-arched niches on three sides and are open on the fourth side towards the inner face of the wall, with similar corbels.
Inside the central tower, there are stone stairs leading to a roof platform. The full-height room behind the arched doorway has two tall screens made of unmoulded square columns on either side.
Local climate
Rothley Castle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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