Mulgrave Castle

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Le château en bref

Mulgrave Castle is a large country house on the Mulgrave estate, in the parish of Lythe, about 6 km west of Whitby, above the North Yorkshire coast. It is the third seigneurial residence on the estate, after Nigel Fossard's motte and the medieval enclosure castle whose ruin stands in the woods to the south-west. The core of the house was built before 1735 for the Duchess of Buckingham. It was then enlarged by John Soane in 1786-1787, and given an asymmetrical, battlemented silhouette by William Atkinson in the early 19th century, which accounts for its Gothic Revival castle appearance. The house sits within a vast landscape park of some 377 hectares, laid out in the late 18th and early 19th centuries according to the proposals of Humphry Repton. House and park are both protected at Grade II* and remain in private ownership.