About The Castle, Castle Eden
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Interesting Places, Other Buildings And Structures
The Castle at Castle Eden, County Durham, England, is an 18th-century mansion house and a Grade II* listed building. No trace remains of the medieval castle of Robert the Bruce.
The Burdon family of Castle Eden had their origins in Stockton on Tees, where the first Rowland Burdon was mayor nine times in the 17th century. His great-grandson Rowland Burdon III, a merchant banker, purchased the manor of Castle Eden in 1758, and in about 1765, with the assistance of architect William Newton, built the house which came to be known as The Castle. The house has three storeys and a seven-bay entrance front. The central three bays are canted and the whole carries a castellated parapet.
