Altidore Castle

Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement toy castle-style country house, built c.1780. The country house is finished in render with stone and moulded dressings. With the fall on the ground it is two-storey to the front and three-storey to the rear. The front door has a Gibbsian surround and is covered with a flat-roofed portico. This is set in a three-bay breakfront with a Venetian window to the first floor. Window openings are generally flat-headed with one over one timber sash frames. To each corner of the building there is an octagonal castellated tower. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate. The country house is set at the head of a long driveway within a large mature garden. The driveway begins with decorative wrought-iron gates and square panelled gate pillars.

Altidore Castle was owned by the Dopping-Hepenstal family for much of the nineteenth century but they rarely used it and, instead, leased it out for long periods of time.

Delightful, well preserved late Georgian toy castle-style country house, which in keeping with the period is actually more classical than gothic. Country houses such as this are comparatively rare and this is a good example of the genre. Altidore Castle was owned by the Dopping-Hepenstal family for much of the nineteenth century but they rarely used it and, instead, leased it out for long periods of time. A letter head (20th April 1905) illustrates the country house when it was operating as a tuberculosis sanatorium known as "Altadore [sic] Sanatorium".

Altidore Castle was owned by the Dopping-Hepenstal family for much of the nineteenth century but they rarely used it and, instead, leased it out for long periods of time.