Castle Ashby House

Castle Ashby
The façade of Castle Ashby
TypeProdigy house
LocationCastle Ashby, Northamptonshire
Coordinates52°13′28″N 0°44′19″W / 52.2245°N 0.7385°W / 52.2245; -0.7385
Built1574-c.1600
Architectural style(s)Elizabethan
OwnerMarquess of Northampton
Websitehttps://www.castleashbygardens.co.uk
Listed Building – Grade I
Official nameCastle Ashby
Designated3 May 1968
Reference no.1371298
Official nameCastle Ashby
Designated25 June 1984
Reference no.1000385
Castle Ashby House is located in Northamptonshire
Castle Ashby House
Location of Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire

Castle Ashby, often Castle Ashby House (to differentiate it from the parish) is a country house at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England. It is one of the seats of the Marquess of Northampton. The house, church, formal gardens and landscaped park are Grade I listed.

The house today

The original castle, a manor house, came about as the result of a licence obtained in 1306 by Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry, to castellate his mansion in the village of Ashby. Sir Gerard Braybroke was at one time of Castle Ashby Manor.[1] It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, with a Palladian section closing the front courtyard added in the 18th century.

  1. ^ Birch, Walter de Gray (1892). Catalogue of seals in the Department of manuscripts in the British museum. British Museum, Dept. of Manuscripts. pp. 553. Retrieved 7 July 2011.