[4] In 1981 the castle was used as a location for the filming of a five-part BBC dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White.

[8] and Lady Howard-Lawson in 1994 to Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, a Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist Party life peer.

After his death in a helicopter crash in 2014 the castle was put up for sale by his estate in 2024, with an asking price of £15 million.

[11] The estate has a number of other Grade I listed structures including: the eastern gate lodge and its walls and gate piers;[12][13] the cascade which descends to the River Eden,[14] a dovecote;[15] a walled kitchen garden;[16] a set of salmon coops;[17] a small garden temple known as The Tempietto.

[18] and a set of caves, known as St Constantine's Cells, believed to have been excavated in medieval times by the monks of Wetheral Priory.