Ross Castle is a Grade II listed building in the North East Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. Castle folly.
Ross Castle
- WRENN ID
- proud-wattle-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North East Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes MP: Melanie Onn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Castle folly
- Address
- Ross Castle, Central Promenade
- OS grid reference
- TA 309 086
- Coordinates
- 53.55828, -0.02485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Ross Castle sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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