Buy the castle that stood in for Riverrun on Game of Thrones
By Corey Smith
Ever wanted to live like a Tully, able to fall asleep to the lapping sounds of the Trident and peering down from your battlements in disgust at the assembled Lannister forces outside your gates? Now’s your chance. HBO has used Gosford Castle in County Armagh, Northern Ireland to stand in for Riverrun, and now, a big chunk of it is up for sale for as little as £500,000, or $656,500; they’re taking offers now.
HBO visited Gosford Castle to film scenes for season 3, specifically the one where Robb Stark beheaded the traitor Rickard Karstark; should be a nice memory to wake up to. The castle has been divided into several sections, one of which was auctioned off at the end of June. Gosford Castle Development Limited is now selling another chuck. It’s already put work into this section of the castle in order to turn it into six luxury apartments — the Inner Bailey, the Great Hall, the Old Keep, the Dining Room House, the Library Wing and the Round Tower — each of which has several bedrooms and an average of 3500 square feet. As the new owner, you can keep going in that direction, make it a hotel, keep it all to yourself, whatever; it’s your castle.
Originally built in the mid-1800’s for the 2nd Earl of Gosford, the castle was designed in the Norman revival style, which is itself modeled on Roman architecture of the 11th and 12 centuries. The Earls of Gosford lived there until 1921, when the treacherous Freys took it for themselves the Northern Ireland Ministry of Agriculture purchased the property and turned it into a park. The castle would go on to be used as everything from a public document storage facility to a barracks during World War II to a hotel. And of course as as filming site for Game of Thrones. And now it can be yours.
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