New Wardour Castle

New Wardour Castle
New Wardour Castle
New Wardour Castle is located in Wiltshire
New Wardour Castle
Location within Wiltshire
General information
Architectural stylePalladian
Town or cityTisbury, Wiltshire
CountryEngland
Coordinates51°02′16″N 2°05′38″W / 51.0378°N 2.0940°W / 51.0378; -2.0940
Construction started1769
Completed1776
ClientHenry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour
Design and construction
Architect(s)James Paine

New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by Giacomo Quarenghi, who was a principal architect of the Imperial Russian capital city, Saint Petersburg.

The building of the house was begun in 1769 and completed in 1776, with additional buildings being added in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1961 to 1990, it was the home of Cranborne Chase School, an independent boarding school for girls.

New Wardour Castle is approximately 0.75 miles (1.2 km) from Old Wardour Castle, which was left as a landscape feature of the parkland of the new house. This was formerly the home of the Arundell family before it was besieged, damaged and slighted in the Civil War.