diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 228cc9e..cd32c54 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Adding validation to request handlers
     )
     from openapi_core.unmarshalling.schemas.exceptions import ValidateError  # type: ignore
     from tornado.web import RequestHandler
-    from tornado_openapi3.requests import RequestValidator
+    from tornado_openapi3 import RequestValidator
     import yaml
 
 
@@ -53,3 +53,24 @@ Adding validation to request handlers
                 self.finish()
             except OpenAPIError:
                 raise
+
+Validating a response
+=====================
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from tornado.testing import AsyncHTTPTestCase
+    from tornado_openapi3 import ResponseValidator
+
+    from myapplication import create_app, spec
+
+
+    class TestResponses(AsyncHTTPTestCase):
+        def get_app(self) -> Application:
+            return create_app()
+
+        def test_status(self) -> None:
+            validator = ResponseValidator(spec)
+            response = self.fetch("/status")
+            result = validator.validate(response)
+            result.raise_for_errors()
diff --git a/tests/test_responses.py b/tests/test_responses.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2727d36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_responses.py
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+import unittest
+
+import attr
+
+from hypothesis import given, settings  # type: ignore
+import hypothesis.strategies as s  # type: ignore
+
+from openapi_core import create_spec  # type: ignore
+from openapi_core.validation.response.datatypes import OpenAPIResponse  # type: ignore
+from tornado.httpclient import HTTPRequest, HTTPResponse  # type: ignore
+from tornado.testing import AsyncHTTPTestCase  # type: ignore
+from tornado.web import Application, RequestHandler  # type: ignore
+
+from tornado_openapi3 import (
+    ResponseValidator,
+    TornadoResponseFactory,
+)
+
+settings(deadline=None)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Responses:
+    code: int
+    headers: Dict[str, str]
+
+    def as_openapi(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            str(self.code): {
+                "description": "Response",
+                "headers": {
+                    name: {"schema": {"type": "string", "enum": [value]}}
+                    for name, value in self.headers.items()
+                },
+            }
+        }
+
+
+@s.composite
+def responses(draw, min_headers=0) -> Responses:
+    field_name = s.text(
+        s.characters(
+            min_codepoint=33,
+            max_codepoint=126,
+            blacklist_categories=("Lu",),
+            blacklist_characters=":",
+        ),
+        min_size=1,
+    )
+    field_value = s.text(
+        s.characters(
+            min_codepoint=0x20, max_codepoint=0x7E, blacklist_characters=" \r\n"
+        ),
+        min_size=1,
+    )
+    return Responses(
+        code=draw(s.sampled_from([200, 304, 400, 500])),
+        headers=draw(s.dictionaries(field_name, field_value, min_size=min_headers)),
+    )
+
+
+class TestResponseFactory(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_response(self) -> None:
+        tornado_request = HTTPRequest(url="http://example.com")
+        tornado_response = HTTPResponse(request=tornado_request, code=200)
+        expected = OpenAPIResponse(
+            data="",
+            status_code=200,
+            mimetype="text/html",
+        )
+        openapi_response = TornadoResponseFactory.create(tornado_response)
+        self.assertEqual(attr.asdict(expected), attr.asdict(openapi_response))
+
+
+class ResponsesHandler(RequestHandler):
+    responses: Optional[Responses] = None
+
+    def get(self) -> None:
+        if ResponsesHandler.responses:
+            self.set_status(ResponsesHandler.responses.code)
+            for name, value in ResponsesHandler.responses.headers.items():
+                self.add_header(name, value)
+
+
+class TestResponse(AsyncHTTPTestCase):
+    def get_app(self) -> Application:
+        return Application([(r"/.*", ResponsesHandler)])
+
+    @given(responses())
+    def test_simple_request(self, responses: Responses) -> None:
+        spec = create_spec(
+            {
+                "openapi": "3.0.0",
+                "info": {"title": "Test specification", "version": "0.1"},
+                "paths": {
+                    "/": {
+                        "get": {
+                            "responses": responses.as_openapi(),
+                        }
+                    }
+                },
+            }
+        )
+        ResponsesHandler.responses = responses
+        validator = ResponseValidator(spec)
+        response = self.fetch("/")
+        result = validator.validate(response)
+        result.raise_for_errors()
diff --git a/tornado_openapi3/__init__.py b/tornado_openapi3/__init__.py
index d51d327..268fa70 100644
--- a/tornado_openapi3/__init__.py
+++ b/tornado_openapi3/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 from tornado_openapi3.requests import RequestValidator, TornadoRequestFactory
+from tornado_openapi3.responses import ResponseValidator, TornadoResponseFactory
 
 __all__ = [
     "RequestValidator",
+    "ResponseValidator",
     "TornadoRequestFactory",
+    "TornadoResponseFactory",
 ]
diff --git a/tornado_openapi3/responses.py b/tornado_openapi3/responses.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cdb6e1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tornado_openapi3/responses.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+from openapi_core.validation.response.datatypes import (  # type: ignore
+    OpenAPIResponse,
+    ResponseValidationResult,
+)
+from openapi_core.validation.response import validators  # type: ignore
+from tornado.httpclient import HTTPResponse  # type: ignore
+
+from .requests import TornadoRequestFactory
+
+
+class TornadoResponseFactory:
+    @classmethod
+    def create(cls, response: HTTPResponse) -> OpenAPIResponse:
+        mimetype = response.headers.get("Content-Type", "text/html")
+        return OpenAPIResponse(
+            data=response.body.decode("utf-8"),
+            status_code=response.code,
+            mimetype=mimetype,
+        )
+
+
+class ResponseValidator(validators.ResponseValidator):
+    def validate(self, response: HTTPResponse) -> ResponseValidationResult:
+        return super().validate(
+            TornadoRequestFactory.create(response.request),
+            TornadoResponseFactory.create(response),
+        )
+
+
+__all__ = ["ResponseValidator", "TornadoResponseFactory"]