Castle wedding venues in the UK

Level 5 True Castle

Barcaldine Castle

Benderloch, Argyll

An L-plan tower house built in 1601 to 1609 as a military outpost. All six guest rooms are inside the historic castle building.

Sleep inside the walls

• EV charging

5-star · Guests 9.8/10

Level 5 True Castle

Thornbury Castle

Thornbury, South Gloucestershire

A Tudor castle begun around 1511 for Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. Guests sleep in the historic inner court, including tower suites reached by the original spiral stair.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

5-star · Guests 9.5/10

Level 5 True Castle

Crossbasket Castle

High Blantyre, South Lanarkshire

A 16th-century tower with a 19th-century house added, category A listed. Some bedrooms are inside that historic fabric.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

5-star · Guests 9.2/10

Level 5 True Castle

Ballygally Castle

Ballygally, Larne, County Antrim

A 17th-century Scottish-style tower house, Grade A listed. Four Tower Rooms sit inside the original building; most rooms are in a later wing.

Some rooms inside the walls

• EV charging
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 9.0/10

Level 5 True Castle

Langley Castle

Hexham, Northumberland

A mid-14th-century tower house, Grade I listed. Nine bedrooms are inside the castle itself; other rooms are in separate estate buildings.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 9.0/10

Level 5 True Castle

Lumley Castle Hotel

Chester-le-Street, County Durham

Built after licences to crenellate in 1382 and 1392 for Sir Ralph Lumley. Some rooms sit in the medieval castle, others in the courtyard range.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.8/10

Level 5 True Castle

Dalhousie Castle

Bonnyrigg, Midlothian

A stone keep built around 1450 within later curtain walls, Category A listed. Some rooms are inside the historic castle, others in a separate lodge.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 8.4/10

Level 5 True Castle

Dornoch Castle Hotel

Dornoch, Sutherland, Highland

A bishop's palace with a tower dating from around 1500, whose south wall survives at about nine feet thick. Nine of the 21 bedrooms are inside this historic tower.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

3-star · Guests 8.3/10

Level 5 True Castle

Walworth Castle Hotel

Darlington, County Durham

A Grade I listed mansion built around 1600 with corner towers, on the site of an earlier Hansard family house. Most bedrooms are inside that historic building, some in a later annex.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

3-star · Guests 8.3/10

Level 5 True Castle

Freswick Castle

Freswick, near Wick, Caithness

A 16th-century Sinclair and Mowat tower house, recast as a mansion in the late 18th century and Category A listed. Guests sleep inside the historic house, in six bedrooms.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Golf

Level 5 True Castle

Hazlewood Castle & Spa

Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

A castle built after a 1286 licence to crenellate. Nine of the 32 rooms are inside the historic castle, the rest in later courtyard buildings.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 7.9/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Branxholme Castle

Hawick, Scottish Borders

A category A listed 16th-century tower house heavily altered and incorporated into a later mansion remodelled in 1837. It is not confirmed which part the two guest suites are in.

• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 9.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Midford Castle Sport and Wellness Resort

Midford, near Bath, Somerset

Built in 1775 in Gothic style by architect John Carter, with no defensive history. One self-catering let sits on the castle's own ground floor, others are in separate former outbuildings.

Some rooms inside the walls

Guests 9.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Glenapp Castle

Ballantrae, South Ayrshire

Built in 1870 as a Scottish Baronial mansion by architect David Bryce, with no earlier defensive structure on the site. Guests sleep in the mansion or a garden cottage, not a medieval fortress.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Restaurant

5-star · Guests 9.5/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Cringletie House

Peebles, Scottish Borders

Rebuilt around 1863 by architect David Bryce with corner turrets in his baronial style, replacing a 1666 house, with no defensive history. Most bedrooms are in this Victorian house.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 9.3/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Augill Castle

Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

A Grade II listed house in castellated Gothick style, started in 1841. It was built as a grand house, not a defensive castle, and guests sleep inside it.

Some rooms inside the walls

• EV charging
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 9.2/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Portmeirion Village & Castell Deudraeth

Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales

Castell Deudraeth is a house castellated in the 1840s, not a defensive castle. Only its 11 rooms sit inside the castellated building; other rooms are elsewhere in the village.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Pool
• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 9.2/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

The Culloden Estate and Spa

Holywood, County Down

Built in 1876 in Scottish Baronial style as a bishop's palace, not a defensive castle. Guests sleep in a hotel built around this 19th-century house.

• Spa
• Pool
• Restaurant

5-star · Guests 9.2/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Lews Castle

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides

A mansion built from 1847 to 1854 in Gothic Revival and Baronial style for a private owner, with no defensive history. Apartments occupy the upper floors of that historic building.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed

3-star · Guests 9.1/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Cornhill Castle

Coulter, near Biggar, South Lanarkshire

Built in 1871 by architect William Leiper for Alexander Kay in a French Chateau style, with no defensive history. Guests sleep in the Victorian mansion or in separate garden lodges.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 9.0/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Schloss Roxburghe Golf Resort

Heiton, near Kelso, Scottish Borders

A Category B Scottish Jacobean mansion built in 1853, with no defensive history. Most bedrooms are in later wings, though 20 rooms are in the original house.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Golf

5-star · Guests 8.9/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Inverlochy Castle Hotel

Torlundy, Fort William, Highland

A 19th-century Scottish castle, built as a private house rather than a fortification. Some rooms are inside the castle, others in a converted stable block nearby.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

5-star · Guests 8.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Killeavy Castle Estate

Meigh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland

A Grade A listed, castellated mid-19th-century mansion with towers. Most guests sleep in a separate modern hotel wing, not the castle.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Pool

4-star · Guests 8.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Stonefield Castle Hotel

Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Argyll and Bute

An 1837 Scottish Baronial mansion by architect William Playfair, category B listed, with no defensive history. Guests sleep in the historic house.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 8.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Swinton Park Hotel

Masham, North Yorkshire

A house begun in 1695 and remodelled in the 1820s with turrets, castellations and a round tower, without a real defensive history. Guests sleep in the main house and a separate Coach House.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Pool

4-star · Guests 8.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Meldrum House Hotel Golf and Country Estate

Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire

A tower house begun about 1236, but rebuilt in 1836 and 1934. Manor House rooms sit within this later fabric rather than the medieval tower itself.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.7/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Carberry Tower Mansion House and Estate

Musselburgh, East Lothian

A tower house completed by about 1500, enlarged into a large mansion from 1760 and again after 1861. Guests stay mostly in the later mansion, not confirmed to be inside the surviving tower fabric.

• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 8.5/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Dalmunzie Castle Hotel

Spittal of Glenshee, Perthshire

The hotel's own site dates the building to 1510 as a Laird's mansion, now shown in Scots Baronial style with turrets, a look usually added later.

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

3-star · Guests 8.5/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Fonab Castle Hotel

Pitlochry, Perthshire

A Scottish Baronial mansion built in 1892 as a private house. Some bedrooms are in the historic building, others in separate lodges.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Pool

5-star · Guests 8.5/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Sherbrooke Castle Hotel

Pollokshields, Glasgow

Built in 1896 as a baronial villa for a private owner, with a tower but no defensive history. Some rooms sit in the original building.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.5/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Ardoe House Hotel & Spa

Blairs, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire

A Scottish Baronial mansion built in 1878, a private house until 1947. Some rooms are in the original house, others in later extensions.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Pool

4-star · Guests 8.4/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Château Rhianfa

Menai Bridge, Anglesey (Ynys Môn)

A Victorian house built from 1849 to 1851 in French chateau style, not a defensive castle. Some rooms are in the original house, others in separate lodge and cottage buildings.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Restaurant

5-star · Guests 8.4/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Glenskirlie Castle Hotel

Banknock, Stirlingshire

A purpose-built castle-style building completed in 2007, designed to look like a 16th-century Scottish castle, with no defensive history. Bedrooms are inside this modern castle building.

Sleep inside the walls

• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.4/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Amberley Castle

Amberley, West Sussex

A genuine medieval castle licensed in 1377, but Civil War damage in 1643 meant much of today's fabric is a later rebuild. Some bedrooms sit inside the old walls, others in later buildings.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.3/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

The Atholl Palace

Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland

A Scottish Baronial hydropathic hotel built from 1874 to 1886, not a real castle. Most rooms are inside this Victorian building; some are in the separate Manor House and estate lodges.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Pool

4-star · Guests 8.3/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Tregenna Castle Resort

St Ives, Cornwall

A Grade II listed granite house built in 1774 with four castellated turrets, not a defensive castle. Some rooms sit in the original building, others in later wings and lodges.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Spa
• Pool
• Restaurant

3-star · Guests 8.3/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Otterburn Castle

Otterburn, Northumberland

A Grade II listed castellated country house rebuilt after 1830, incorporating an 18th-century house, with a 1904 tower added. No defensive history survives in the current fabric.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.2/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Peckforton Castle

Peckforton, Cheshire

Built from 1844 to 1850 as a castellated country house, with no earlier defensive history. Guests sleep inside this Victorian castle building.

Some rooms inside the walls

• EV charging
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.1/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Ruthin Castle Hotel and Spa

Ruthin, Denbighshire

A castellated mansion built from 1825 and enlarged in the 1840s on the site of a medieval castle demolished after a 1646 siege. Guests sleep in the 19th-century mansion, not the medieval remains.

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.0/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Camelot Castle Hotel

Tintagel, Cornwall

A Victorian hotel built in 1894 to 1899 with three castle-style towers, not a medieval fortification. Guests sleep within this single purpose-built building.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

Guests 7.8/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Mansfield Castle Hotel

Tain, Ross-shire, Highlands

A Victorian mansion built in the late 1870s, without a defensive history. Superior rooms are in the castle itself, standard rooms in a later garden wing.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 7.4/10

Level 4 Castle-Style Mansion

Forter Castle

Kirkton of Glenisla, Angus

A 16th-century tower house stood roofless for about 350 years before a full 1988 to 1990 rebuild. You sleep inside the old walls, but the floors, roof and interiors are modern.

Sleep inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Family rooms

Castle hotel

Melville Castle

Lasswade, Midlothian

Melville Castle sits on a 54-acre estate in Lasswade, Midlothian, with 33 bedrooms and grounds where Mary Queen of Scots reportedly once stayed.

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 9.0/10

Castle hotel

Kilconquhar Castle Estate

Kilconquhar, Fife

Kilconquhar Castle Estate mixes hotel rooms in its castle building with self-catering cottages and villas across 120 acres of Fife grounds.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Pool
• EV charging

Guests 8.4/10

Castle hotel

Barony Castle Hotel

Eddleston, Peebles, Scottish Borders

The grounds hold the Great Polish Map of Scotland, a 50 by 40 metre relief model built in the 1970s under a Polish war veteran's ownership.

• Dogs allowed
• Pool
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.0/10

Exclusive-use castle

Buittle Castle

Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway

The Baron's Bedchamber sits on the second floor of the main tower, and the castle says the neighbouring room once held Mary, Queen of Scots.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Hot tub

Level 2 Castle Estate Stay

Hever Castle Luxury Bed and Breakfast

Edenbridge, Kent

Bedrooms sit in the Astor Wing and Anne Boleyn Wing, Edwardian additions from 1903, not inside the medieval castle itself.

Rooms outside the historic walls

• EV charging
• Family rooms

5-star · Guests 9.6/10

Level 2 Castle Estate Stay

Cardigan Castle

Cardigan, Ceredigion

A medieval castle site restored as a heritage attraction. Guests sleep in Georgian buildings within the grounds, such as Castle Green House, not in the medieval castle walls.

Rooms outside the historic walls

• Restaurant
• Family rooms

5-star · Guests 9.1/10

Level 2 Castle Estate Stay

Bickleigh Castle

Bickleigh, Tiverton, Devon

A medieval fortified manor site with a moat and a Saxon chapel, according to the hotel. Overnight guests stay in three Grade II listed cottages on the estate, not inside the main historic building.

Rooms outside the historic walls

• Hot tub
• Family rooms

2-star · Guests 7.0/10

Level 2 Castle Estate Stay

Bickleigh Castle

Bickleigh, near Tiverton, Devon

A Norman castle site with a Grade I listed gatehouse. Guests sleep in cottages and thatched buildings on the estate, not inside the historic fortifications.

Rooms outside the historic walls

• Dogs allowed

Level 1 Historic House

Bovey Castle

Moretonhampstead, Devon

A Grade II* listed Edwardian mansion, not a historic castle. The castle name was adopted after it became a hotel.

Some rooms inside the walls

• Dogs allowed
• Spa
• Pool

5-star · Guests 8.6/10

Level 1 Historic House

Castle Bromwich Hall Hotel

Castle Bromwich, Solihull, West Midlands

A Jacobean manor house built around 1599. Despite the name, it is a hall, not a castle, though it is a genuine historic building.

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 8.0/10

Level 0 Castle in Name Only

Castle Green Hotel in Kendal

Kendal, Cumbria

Castle in name only: a Victorian mansion house from 1847, extended into a modern hotel, standing near the ruined Kendal Castle rather than inside it.

Rooms outside the historic walls

• Spa
• Pool
• Restaurant

4-star · Guests 8.4/10

Level 0 Castle in Name Only

Castle Hotel Windsor

Windsor, Berkshire

Castle in name only: a coaching inn first recorded in 1528. The building was never a fortified castle.

• Dogs allowed
• Restaurant
• Family rooms

4-star · Guests 8.3/10

Level 0 Castle in Name Only

Norbreck Castle Hotel Blackpool

Blackpool, Lancashire, North West England

Castle in name only: a seafront house built in 1869 and expanded into a hotel from 1912, with a castellated look said to come from a garden gazebo rather than any fortification.

Rooms outside the historic walls

• Dogs allowed
• Pool
• Restaurant

Guests 5.7/10