Country Life

An Englishman’s home is his castle

‘To the visitor, the impression is not of a castle, but of a large, coherent Georgian country house’

SUCH has been the response from interested parties to the relaunch onto the market of Grade I-listed Gilling Castle at East Gilling in the Howardian Hills AONB, 19 miles north of York, that selling agent Edward Stoyle has been more or less camping out at the former prep school to Ampleforth College for the past several weeks.

Having failed to find a buyer when last offered for sale in 2018, the historic, mainly Georgian country house is now being offered with almost 100 acres of gardens, farmland, woodland and golf course, at a guide price of £3.75

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