Tower on Castle Hill is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1984. Tower.
Tower on Castle Hill
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gravel-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham MP: Dame Diana Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1984
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower on Castle Hill, Beverley Road, Cottingham
- OS grid reference
- TA 023 322
- Coordinates
- 53.77652, -0.44861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower on Castle Hill is a structure dating from around 1815, built for William Thompson, a banker from Hull. It is designed in the Gothick style and features a white brick exterior with a red brick interior and stone dressings. The tower has two storeys and an octagonal plan. It includes a plinth and a blocked square-headed door with a hoodmould above an uninscribed shield. There are slit windows on seven sides, and a moulded band at the first floor level. The first floor has eight oblong windows, all under a continuous hoodmould. At the eaves level, there is a crenellated parapet. This tower was constructed as a visual focal point for Cottingham Castle, which has since been demolished. Cottingham Castle was a Gothick house built for Thompson in the early 19th century.
Local climate
Tower on Castle Hill receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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