Yarm Castle in Stockton-on-Tees, England

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Yarm Castle, a grey-stone structure built in the 1880s by local businessman David Doughty in Stockton-on-Tees, England, features turrets, ramparts, and colored glazed windows once lit by gas light. Doughty's son later added Yarm town hall to the property. The castle is best described as a folly, an ornamental structure built more for whimsy than practical purpose, and visitors searching for drawbridges and moats will be disappointed.