Day 025/25. Highcliffe Castle.

Highcliffe Castle was built mainly between 1831 and 1836 by Lord Stuart de Rothesay. Atop the beach to the east of Bournemouth.
The building, remained a family home until the 1950s. Whilst two fires destroyed the rich interiors in the 1960s, the Castle’s renovated exterior is testimony to the remarkable skills of craftsmen and women who carried out a huge repair and conservation programme in the 1990s.
Its residents included Harry Gordon Selfridge, who founded the London based department store Selfridges. Mr Selfridge lived in the Castle between 1916 and 1922, and is buried with his wife and mother at St Mark’s churchyard just across the road from the Castle.