As a castle, it’s not all that much.
Hardly big for one thing, a mere 1,962 square feet, with two bedrooms and two and a half baths. 
Up on a remote hill, with a commanding view of surrounding forests? Nope. Just plunked down on a cleared, two-acre lot at a busy intersection within a stone’s throw of more conventional suburban ‘castles’ in Milton, Georgia, 30-some miles from downtown Atlanta.
But the moat! That saves it. The waterway connects to the swimming pool in the back yard and provides an excuse for a couple of nifty drawbridges connecting to garages. Add a pool house that’s a small replica of the main castle and what’s not to like about that setup?
The granite and white marble castle was built in 1950 by Rudy and Ruth McLaughlin. Local lore has it that Rudy was a long-haul truck driver who told his wife he would build her a castle—and did!
Current information about Rudy and Ruth is sparse indeed, but I figure that if they’re still around they’re well into their 80s today. The Ruth Elizabeth McLaughlin Revocable Trust owns the place, according to Fulton County, which appraises the structure and land at some $440,000.
Some accounts state that it’s not as small as it looks and that there’s lots of subterranean living space, but according to the county records the place doesn’t have a basement.
It’s always been a private residence and never opened for tours, but that doesn’t stop folks from stopping by and taking photos. The sight of it along busy Arnold Mill Road sure slowed me down for a bit.
Here are a few more photos I took of it, and some aerial views, from Google and Bing:
The Urge to be Someplace Else 
At first I thought those were your new digs in CT.
Leslie
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Don’t I wish!
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I used to drive by this place a lot! My kids were small then, and they found it completely amazing. It’s still quite a discovery for most passers by.
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That is awesome. We had a castle just a couple streets down from us when growing up. It had a rather swampy area that would freeze in winter and skating at the castle was a popular cold weather activity. It came up for sale when I was a newly divorced 20 something and I tried to get up enough money to buy it, but alas, I couldn’t. The folks who did buy it made some changes on the outside and covered up the granite blocks of the original structure to give a more modern look, but the bones are still there and I’m always delighted to know it didn’t get torn down for a subdivision.
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