Ross Castle

Ross Castle is a castle folly built in 1885 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. Constructed from iron slag and limestone rubble, it is set into a low sea cliff. The building has an oval shape, measuring approximately 40 metres long by 25 metres wide and standing about 10 metres high. It features two stages, with the larger bottom stage supported by low buttresses on the seaward side. A path winds up to the top of the upper stage, which has a wide arched recess on its south-west side and an irregular parapet above. The castle was part of the improvements to the promenade and pier gardens carried out by the railway company and is named after the company's secretary, Edward Ross. The top of the castle indicates the original height of the clay cliffs that were eroded by the sea before the new promenade was created.