Peckforton Castle is a Victorian-era country house built to look like a genuine medieval fortress, complete with gatehouse, portcullis, dry moat, arrow-slit windows, towers and battlements, and is now a Grade I listed building used as a hotel and wedding venue in Cheshire.
It was built between about 1844 and 1851 for John Tollemache, a very wealthy Cheshire landowner and MP, who wanted an imposing, “impregnable” family home dominating his vast estate on the Peckforton Hills.
Tollemache chose Anthony Salvin, one of the leading Gothic revival architects, and had stone quarried about a mile away and brought in on its own temporary railway to create an architecturally “serious” mock-medieval stronghold.
Contemporaries described it as both one of the greatest Gothic mansions of its age and “the very height of masquerading” – essentially an extremely scholarly but theatrical medieval pastiche.
 
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Tollemache is said to have liked the idea that a heavily fortified house out in the Cheshire countryside would protect him in the event of popular revolution from industrial cities like Manchester and Liverpool! I think he just liked fairytale castles, I mean who doesn't.