Down Hall, Barrow upon Humber

Down Hall is a large red brick merchant's folly in Barrow upon Humber in North Lincolnshire, England.

Built in 1877 by JW Beeton, a willow merchant from Hull, the building originally served as both a grand house and a factory for the manufacture of coal baskets, chairs, and prams on its top floor and attic.

[1][2][3] Beeton was an eccentric who paid his workers in distinctive octagonal tokens, and observed them cutting osiers from a panoramic view glass tower, (now removed,) on the roof of the building.

[2] It is alleged that he lined the drive to the hall with skulls removed from a Saxon burial ground which was disturbed during building.

Sleight claimed that the effort of building a house to such eccentric specifications almost killed him.