Clifton Castle

Clifton Castle is a country house in Clifton-on-Yore, a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

[1][2] The estate was purchased in 1735 from the Preston family by Timothy Hutton of Marske, who demolished the castle and commissioned John Foss to build the present Grecian style house in 1802.

His only daughter Georgina married Major-General Sir John Clayton Cowell, Master of the Queen's Household.

In the middle three bays of the main range are a four giant Ionic columns carrying a frieze, and a pediment with a coat of arms.

[4][8] The surviving medieval castle wall is built of stone, and is about 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) high and is Grade II listed.