Tilstone Hall Folly

Tilstone Hall Folly is a late 16th to early 17th century gatehouse ruin located on Tilstone Hall Lane in Tilstone Fearnall. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features English garden wall bond brickwork. The ruin consists of a deteriorated ground floor and part of the first floor.

On the west front, there is a central round pedestrian archway with moulded springers and ovolo moulding on the arch voussoirs. Plinths and capitals of missing columns flank the arch. To the left, there is a blocked 3-light mullioned window with a chamfered surround and a pediment above it, with remnants of a similar window on the right. An entablature projects above the capitals and at the corners, with a further pediment resting on the cornice to the left.

The east front mirrors the west face but features two sets of two pediments and one cabled Roman Doric column. The proportions and use of cabled Roman Doric columns make the building somewhat similar to the screen at Speke Hall in Lancashire.