Castle challenge - #5 - Watermouth Castle

Watermouth Castle is a building in Watermouth, near Ilfracombe, North Devon designed by George Wightwick as a residence for the Bassett family in the mid-19th century and is not a true castle but a country house built to resemble one.

It was from this castle on, Jared and I decided that we would take a picture of us two outside every castle we visited. This was downhill and windy! Haha! Glad I had my hat on!

 

Watermouth Castle was purchased from Wickenden in 1977 by Richard L. Haines of Market Deeping, Cambridgeshire and his Dutch-born wife, the daughter of a flower-bulb grower and nurseryman named Derick Van Daalen. The price paid for the Castle and 60 acres was £50,000. The Castle was turned by them into an amusement centre, which is currently run in 2012 by their two sons Jonathan and Antonie Haines.