Dobroyd Castle is a Victorian Gothic mansion built between 1866 and 1875 for John Fielden, heir to the family that dominated Todmorden's cotton industry. The architect John Gibson designed it as a private house of extraordinary size and ambition — more country house than mill-owner's home, with turrets, battlements, and a commanding position above the town. It is a striking example of what serious textile money could produce in mid-Victorian England.
The building is now used as a residential care home and is not open to the public, but it can be seen from the road and the surrounding hillside paths. The grounds were once notably landscaped; some of the estate trees survive. The castle and the town hall, both by the same architect and paid for by the same family, give Todmorden an unusual architectural coherence for a town of its size.