Middleton Castle

Middleton Castle is a Grade I listed building, set within a moat, and consists of a 15th-century gatehouse and a house of the late 19th and early 20th century. The de Scales family had the lordship of the manor from the reign of Henry II in the 12th century. The gatehouse was built about 1455 by Thomas Scales, 7th Baron Scales. It is thought that a house was begun, adjacent to the gatehouse, by him and continued by his daughter Elizabeth Scales, 8th Baroness Scales and her husband Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers. Elizabeth died without issue in 1473: Woodville was executed in 1483 by order of Richard Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III). The manor was subsequently granted to John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who died in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth.

The castle has 15 beautifully decorated bedrooms to accommodate 30 guests, along with a family kitchen with an AGA, a prep kitchen, a dining room with oak paneling, a variety of reception rooms, as well as a billiards room with table tennis, snooker, and board games.