This postcard view of Skelton Castle is dated from 1906 and is one of several we are now finding. The castle at Skelton was originally built in 1141 by Robert de Brus I; being demolished the castle and replaced it by the current country house between 1770 and 1817. The present house is built of dressed sandstone with a roof of Lakeland slate. It is a two-storey block with a 5-bay frontage. It incorporates some remains of the medieval castle. The house was built c.1770 and extended in 1810-1817 by Ignatius Bonomi. Bonomi was Surveyor of Bridges for Durham, but also as an architect designed many buildings locally, including St Leonard’s church at Loftus.
Image courtesy of Peter Appleton Olive Bennett.
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