Skelton Castle

[4] The present house is built of dressed sandstone with a roof of Lakeland slate.

[5] It was constructed between 1788 and 1817 for John Wharton, Member of Parliament for Beverley who had inherited the ruined Skelton Castle from his father Joseph Hall-Stevenson in 1786.

He inherited a considerable fortune from his aunt, much of which he spent of demolishing the castle and building his new home.

He died childless and in poverty in 1843 and Skelton devolved to his nephew John Thomas Wharton of Gilling.

She lived there until at least 1986, by which time her relative, Major Wharton, actually ran the estate on account of her age.