Highcliffe Castle is a grade one listed constructing with an intriguing records. Perched at the excessive cliffs that provide the village of Highcliffe its call, the castle became constructed inside the early 19th century at the site of a Georgian mansion designed for the Earl of Bute, who founded Kew gardens (the authentic gardens at Highcliffe Castle were laid out by using Capability Brown). The fortress was designed with the aid of William Donthorpe, a founding member of RIBA, who incorporated into the layout large quantities of carved medieval stonework salvaged from the Norman Bendictine Abbey of St Peter at Jumieges. Highcliffe Castle is built on an 'L' form, with an oriel window relevant to the south-east axis that gives an unrivalled view across the landscaped gardens to Christchurch Bay and the arena-well-known needles on the Isle of Wight. The castle is now a fully-certified wedding venue (the most famous in Dorset) and opens to the general public. A variety of exhibitions and ancient data, which include a black and white photo in every room taken from a 1942 edition of Country Life, showing the citadel in its heyday! There are tea rooms in the garden.