Carlton Towers

Carlton Towers.

Carlton Towers is in Carlton (between Selby and Snaith), North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed Victorian gothic country house designed by Edward Welby Pugin. It is the Yorkshire home of His Grace The 18th Duke of Norfolk. Since 1991, the house has been lived in, and run, by Lord Gerald Fitzalan-Howard and his family. Lord Gerald is a younger brother of the current Duke of Norfolk.

Though the Duke of Norfolk's family still live in part of the house, it is now largely used for wedding receptions and similar events. It was used as the location of "Hetton Abbey" for the 1988 film version of Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust.

The character played by Bernard Cribbins in the 1967 film Casino Royale was named "Carlton Towers, CFO" as an in-joke.

Carlton Towers is also the name of several blocks of high rise council flats in the Little London area of Leeds. However, these are currently being abandoned as homes and residents are being moved out.

The house (along with Lord Gerald Fitzalan-Howard and his young family) was featured on The Guest Wing, a television programme shown on Sky Atlantic in Great Britain in April and May, 2012.

See also

• Arundel Castle in Sussex, which is the main seat of the Dukes of Norfolk
• Norfolk House, the former London residence of the Dukes of Norfolk

External links

• Official site
• Historic England. "Details from listed building database ({{{num}}})". National Heritage List for England.