Peckforton Castle is a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland on the Peckforton Hills in Cheshire, England. John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache, had it built between 1844 and 1850, and Anthony Salvin designed it in the Gothic Revival style. It cost £60,000, and a railway was built to carry stone from a quarry about a mile away.
The castle is faced with red sandstone. It has a gatehouse, a portcullis, a dry moat, arrow-slot windows and a great hall with a Minton tile floor. It has been Grade I listed since June 10, 1952.
The family left in 1939. The castle later appeared in the 1991 film Robin Hood. Evelyn Graybill bought it in 1988 and made it a hotel, and the Naylor family bought it in 2006.
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