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Studley Castle is a 19th-century country house at Studley, Warwickshire, England, which is now occupied as a hotel. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The manor of Studley was owned by the Lyttleton family and was bequeathed by Philip Lyttleton to his niece Dorothy, who married Francis Holyoake. Their son Francis Lyttleton Holyoake, (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1834), inherited in 1833 the Ribston Hall, Yorkshire estates of a business partner and changed his name to Holyoake-Goodricke (see Holyoake-Goodricke Baronets). The sale of the Yorkshire property financed the building of a new mansion at Studley.
The new house, designed in Gothic Revival style by the architect Samuel Beazley, was completed in 1836.
From 1903 to the 1960s the house was occupied by Studley College, a horticultural training establishment for ladies. It later became offices for British Leyland and Rover Cars. More recently the property was converted for use as a hotel but it has now closed. However, it has been acquired by Warner Leisure Hotels, as their 14th hotel. It is currently going under a £30 million transformation and is set to re-open in 2018.
Despite its title, the building has never been a castle. The site of the medieval castle at Studley is occupied by the nearby 16th-century house known as Old Studley Castle.