This list of castles in England
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes | County |
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Someries Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Fragmentary remains | Brick, unfinished, ruined gatehouse and chapel survive.[1] | Bedfordshire | ||
Donnington Castle | Castle | c.1386 | Fragment | Built by Richard Abberbury the Elder, destroyed in English Civil War, gatehouse survives.[2] | Berkshire | ||
Windsor Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–19th century | Intact | Royal palace | Restored and extended by James Wyatt and Jeffry Wyattville, 1800–30.[3] | ||
Boarstall Tower | Fortified manor house | c.1312 | Fragment | Moated site, gatehouse survives, altered 16–17th centuries, converted to house 20th century.[4] | |||
Buckden Palace | Fortified manor house | 13–15th century | Fragment | Claretian conference centre | Renamed Buckden Towers, partly demolished and remnants incorporated with 19th century house.[5] | Cambridgeshire | |
Elton Hall | Fortified manor house | c.1477 | Fragment | Gatehouse survives, incorporated in building of 1662–1689, remodelled and extended 18–19th centuries.[6] | |||
Kimbolton Castle | Castellated house | 17–18th century | Intact | School | Site of medieval castle, rebuilt and later remodelled by Sir John Vanbrugh 1707–10.[7] | ||
Kirtling Tower | Fortified manor house | c.1530 | Fragment | NGS | 16th century gatehouse on supposed site of moated Saxon castle.[8] | ||
Longthorpe Tower | Tower house | 1263–1300 | Intact | Elaborate scheme of domestic medieval wall paintings.[9] | |||
Northborough Castle | Fortified manor house | 1330–40 | Fragment | Private | Gatehouse and hall survive, with 16–17th century alterations.[10] | ||
Woodcroft Castle | Quadrangular castle | c.1280 | Habitable fragment | Private | West range of original building survives, with alterations.[11] | ||
Beeston Castle | Enclosure castle | 13–14th century | Ruins | Sited on crag high above Cheshire Plain, 19th century outer gatehouse.[12] | Cheshire | ||
Chester Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Fragment | Agricola tower sole feature of medieval castle to survive 18th century fire.[13] | |||
Cholmondeley Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1801–19 | Intact | Marquess of Cholmondeley |
Transformed into castle by Smirke, 1817–19.[14] | ||
Doddington Castle | Tower house | c.1403 | Substantially intact | Private | Also known as Delves Hall. Building At Risk.[15] | ||
Halton Castle | Castle | 13th century | Fragmentary remains | Duchy of Lancaster |
Commanding position, 13th century tower, 18th century courthouse, folly of c.1800.[16] | ||
Peckforton Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1844–50 | Intact | Hotel | By Anthony Salvin, possibly the last serious fortified home built in Britain.[17] | ||
Auckland Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–16th century | Rebuilt | Church of England |
Mostly 16th century, fragments remain of medieval castle, residence of the Bishop of Durham.[18] | County Durham | |
Barnard Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Ruins | [19] | |||
Bowes Castle | Keep | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | Ruins of keep survive.[20] | |||
Brancepeth Castle | Keep and bailey | 14–19th century | Reconstructed | Private | Substantial medieval portions including 5 towers incorporated in 19th century rebuilding.[21] | ||
Durham Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Rebuilt | University College, Durham | Much altered during continuous occupation since c.1072.[22] | ||
Lambton Castle | Neo-romantic castle | c.1820–8 | Intact | Wedding venue / Earl of Durham | Later additions demolished following subsidence.[23] | ||
Lumley Castle | Quadrangular castle | c.1392 | Intact | Hotel / Earl of Scarbrough | Altered c.1580 and 1721.[24] | ||
Mortham Tower | Fortified manor house | 14–16th century | Intact | Private | 15th century tower, formerly in Yorkshire.[25] | ||
Raby Castle | Castle | 12–14th century | Intact | Lord Barnard |
Altered 18–19th centuries.[26] | ||
Raby Old Lodge | Tower house | 16th century | Restored | Holiday accommodation | Probably built as a hunting lodge for the Neville family of Raby Castle.[27] | ||
Scargill Castle | Tower house | 13–15th century | Fragment | Private, farm | Amongst farm buildings.[28] | ||
Walworth Castle | Sham castle | c.1600 | Restored | Hotel | South-west tower and adjoining wall possibly medieval.[29] | ||
Witton Castle | Castle | c.1410 | Restored | Caravan site | Extended 1790–5. Used as a leisure centre for a caravan site.[30] | ||
Caerhays Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1807–10 | Intact | Built 1808 by John Nash.[31] | |||
Carn Brea Castle | Sham castle | 15–19th century | Intact | Restaurant | Possible medieval hunting lodge rebuilt 18–19th centuries.[32] | ||
Ince Castle | Semi-fortified house | c.1640 | Intact | NGS | House may have been held against the Roundheads in 1646.[33] | ||
Launceston Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–13th century | Ruins | [34] | |||
Pendennis Castle | Artillery fort | 1540–98 | Intact | Withstood 5-month siege in 1646.[35] | |||
Pengersick Castle | Fortified manor house | c.1510 | Fragment | 4-storey tower remains, with later building.[36] | |||
Place House, Fowey | Tower house | 15–19th century | Rebuilt | Private | Original tower house defended against the French in 1475, subsequently strengthened, later rebuilt.[37] | ||
Restormel Castle | Shell keep | 12–13th century | Ruins | [38] | |||
St Catherine's Castle | Artillery fort | 1538–40 | Ruins | At mouth of River Fowey.[39] | |||
St. Mawes Castle | Artillery fort | 1540–3 | Intact | Position not defensible from land attack.[40] | |||
St. Michael's Mount | Fortified site | 12–17th century | Substantially intact | Castle and priory church comprise single building.[41] | |||
Tintagel Castle | Twin bailey | 1227–33 | Fragmentary remains | [42] | |||
Trematon Castle | Shell keep | 12–13th century | Ruins | Duchy of Cornwall | [43] | ||
Appleby Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–17th century | Restored | Private | Restored 17th century by Lady Anne Clifford.[44] | Cumbria | |
Armathwaite Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Intact | Private | Incorporated in later buildings.[45] | ||
Arnside Tower | Tower house | 15th century | Ruins | Private | Freestanding tower house.[46] | ||
Askerton Castle | Castle | 14–16th century | Restored | Private, farm | Altered by Anthony Salvin.[47] | ||
Beetham Hall | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Partly ruined | Private | [48] | ||
Bewcastle Castle | Courtyard castle | 14–15th century | Fragmentary ruins | Sited within Roman fort.[49] | |||
Bewley Castle | Fortified manor house | 13–14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Private | Once a residence of the Bishops of Carlisle.[50] | ||
Blencow Hall | Fortified house | 15–16th century | Intact | Holiday accommodation | Altered 1590.[51] | ||
Brackenburgh Old Tower | Pele tower | 14–15th century | Substantially intact | Private | Adjoining large 19th century house.[52] | ||
Brackenhill Tower | Tower house | 1586 | Intact | Holiday accommodation | Restored 21st century.[53] | ||
Branthwaite Hall | Pele tower | 14–15th century | Intact | Private | 17th century additions.[54] | ||
Brough Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Ruins | Restored 1659–62 by Lady Anne Clifford.[55] | |||
Brougham Castle | Keep and bailey | 13–14th century | Ruins | Converted into country house in 17th century by Lady Anne Clifford.[56] | |||
Brougham Hall | Fortified manor house | 13–19th century | Ruins | Crafts centre | Ruins of 19th century house incorporating remains of earlier building.[57] | ||
Broughton Tower | Pele tower | 14th century | Intact | School | Incorporated in later building.[58] | ||
Burneside Hall | Tower house | 14th century | Ruins | Private | [59] | ||
Carlisle Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–15th century | Substantially intact | Converted to barracks 19th century.[60] | |||
Catterlen Hall | Tower house | 15th century | Intact | Private | Later additions.[61] | ||
Clifton Hall | Pele tower | 16th century | Substantially intact | Used as a farm building until 1973.[62] | |||
Cockermouth Castle | Enclosure castle | 13–14th century | Partly restored | Private | 19th century additions.[63] | ||
Corby Castle | Tower house | 13th century | Rebuilt | Private | Concealed within a Georgian Mansion House.[64] | ||
Dacre Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Restored | Private | Restored 17th and 19th centuries.[65] | ||
Dalston Hall | Fortified house | 15th century | Intact | Hotel | Later additions.[66] | ||
Dalton Castle | Pele tower | 14th century | Restored | Remodelled c.1704 and 1856.[67] | |||
Drawdykes Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Intact | Private, farm | Original tower with early Classical Revival facade.[68] | ||
Drumburgh Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Habitable | Private | Converted into farmhouse.[69] | ||
Gleaston Castle | Enclosure castle | 14th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | Abandoned late 15th century.[70] | ||
Greystoke Castle | Castle | 14–19th century | Rebuilt | Wedding venue | Rebuilt incorporating parts of 14th century building, remodelled 1840 by Anthony Salvin.[71] | ||
Harbybrow Tower | Pele tower | 15th century | Ruin | Private | Adjoining 19th century farmhouse.[72] | ||
Hayton Castle | Tower house | 14–15th century | Substantially intact | Private | Castle converted to house.[73] | ||
Hazelslack Tower | Pele tower | 14th century | Ruins | Private | Near Arnside.[74] | ||
Howgill Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Substantially intact | Private | Altered and remodelled 17–18th century.[75] | ||
Hutton-in-the-Forest | Pele tower | 14–19th century | Intact | Large country-house extensions.[76] | |||
Hutton John | Pele tower | 14th century | Intact | Later alterations and additions.[77] | |||
Ingmire Hall | Pele tower | 16–20th century | Rebuilt | Private apartments | Incorporated in large mostly 19th century mansion.[78] | ||
Isel Hall | Tower house | 14–15th century | Intact | Later additions.[79] | |||
Kendal Castle | Ringwork | 12–14th century | Fragmentary remains | [80] | |||
Kentmere Hall | Pele tower | 14th century | Intact | Private | [81] | ||
Kirkandrews Tower | Pele tower | 16th century | Intact | Private | [82] | ||
Linstock Castle | Tower house | 12–13th century | Substantially intact | Private | Altered and remodelled 17–20th century.[83] | ||
Lowther Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1806–14 | Ruins | Shell of 19th century castle by Smirke, on site of medieval hall.[84] | |||
Middleton Hall | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Habitable | Private | Altered and extended 15–19th centuries.[85] | ||
Millom Castle | Castle | 14th century | Ruins | 16–17th century farmhouse built into ruins.[86] | |||
Muncaster Castle | Tower house | 13–14th century | Restored | Remodelled by Anthony Salvin, home of Tom Fool, 16th century jester.[87] | |||
Naworth Castle | Keep and bailey | 13–16th century | Restored | Wedding venue Earl of Carlisle |
Altered and restored 18th and 19th centuries.[88] | ||
Newbiggin Hall | Fortified house | 15–16th century | Intact | Private | Remodelled by Anthony Salvin.[89] | ||
Pendragon Castle | Tower house | 12–14th century | Fragmentary remains | [90] | |||
Penrith Castle | Castle | 14–15th century | Fragmentary remains | [91] | |||
Piel Castle | Castle | 14–15th century | Ruins | Also known as Fouldrey Castle.[92] | |||
Prior's Tower, Carlisle | Pele tower | 15th century | Intact | Church of England | Part of the Deanery, alongside later buildings.[93] | ||
Rose Castle | Quadrangular Castle | 15–16th century | Restored | Church of England | Converted to private house 17th century, residence of the Bishop of Carlisle until 2011.[94] | ||
Scaleby Castle | Tower house | 13–15th century | Partly ruined | Private | Incorporated with later house.[95] | ||
Sizergh Castle | Tower house | 14–16th century | Restored | Altered 18–20th centuries.[96] | |||
Toppin Castle | Sham castle | 19th century | Intact | Private | Imitation tower house.[97] | ||
Ubarrow Hall | Pele tower | Medieval | Substantially intact | Private | Alongside later building, reduced in height.[98] | ||
Wharton Hall | Fortified manor house | 14–17th century | Partly restored | Private | [99] | ||
Whitehall, Mealsgate | Tower house | 14–15th century | Substantially intact | Holiday accommodation | Alterations by Anthony Salvin.[100] | ||
Workington Hall | Tower house | 14–18th century | Ruins | Local authority | Also known as Curwen Hall.[101] | ||
Wray Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1840–7 | Intact | [102] | |||
Wraysholme Tower | Tower house | 15th century | Substantially intact | Private, farm | Used as barn and cow-house, adjoining 19th century house.[103] | ||
Yanwath Hall | Pele tower | 15th century | Intact | Private | Adjoining later building.[104] | ||
Bolsover Castle | Castle | 12–17th century | Rebuilt | Castle rebuilt as 17th century mansion.[105] | Derbyshire | ||
Codnor Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Fragmentary remains | [106] | |||
Elvaston Castle | Castellated house | 17–19th century | Derelict | Derbyshire County Council | Built 1633, remodelled by James Wyatt in 19th century, now within country park. Building At Risk.[107] | ||
Haddon Hall | Fortified manor house | 14–15th century | Intact | Altered 16–17th centuries, restored 1920s.[108] | |||
Mackworth Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Fragment | Private | Ruined gatehouse adjoining farm.[109] | ||
Peveril Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Ruins | Commanding position above ravine.[110] | |||
Riber Castle | Sham castle | 1868 | Ruins | Private | School 1892–1930.[111] | ||
Wingfield Manor | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Ruins | Abandoned 18th century.[112] | |||
Affeton Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Fragment | Private | Gatehouse of house sacked during English Civil War, with 19th century alterations.[113] | Devon | |
Berry Pomeroy Castle | Enclosure castle | 15th century | Ruins | Very late castle, designed to defend against artillery.[114] | |||
Bickleigh Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Restored | Wedding venue | Incorporated in later buildings.[115] | ||
Compton Castle | Fortified manor house | 14–16th century | Restored | Used as farm after 1750, restored 20th century.[116] | |||
Dartmouth Castle | Castle | 1481 | Restored | Converted to artillery castle 1509–47.[117] | |||
Castle Drogo | Neo-romantic castle | 1911–1930 | Intact | By Edwin Lutyens.[118] | |||
Gidleigh Castle | Keep | c.1300 | Ruins | [119] | |||
Hemyock Castle | Enclosure castle | c.1380 | Fragmentary remains | Private | [120] | ||
Kingswear Castle | Artillery fort | 1491–1502 | Intact | Landmark Trust | [121] | ||
Lydford Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Ruins | [122] | |||
Marisco Castle | Keep and bailey | c.1243 | Restored | Restored 1643.[123] | |||
Okehampton Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Fragmentary remains | [124] | |||
Plympton Castle | Motte and bailey | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | [125] | |||
Powderham Castle | Fortified manor house | 14–16th century | Restored | Earl of Devon |
Remodelled 18th and 19th centuries.[126] | ||
Rougemont Castle (Exeter) | Castle | 11–12th century | Fragments | Wedding venue | Medieval fragments survive with later buildings.[127] | ||
Salcombe Castle | Artillery fort | 1540s | Ruins | Refortified 1643–5.[128] | |||
Tiverton Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14th century | Partly habitable | 16th century house built within castle.[129] | |||
Totnes Castle | Shell keep | 11–14th century | Ruins | Well-preserved keep on high motte.[130] | |||
Watermouth Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1825–45 | Intact | Theme park | [131] | ||
Brownsea Castle | Castellated house | 16–19th century | Intact | Incorporates part of 16th century Henrician Castle.[132] | Dorset | ||
Christchurch Castle | Motte and bailey | 12–14th century | Fragmentary remains | Hall known as Constable's House survives, with rare Norman chimney.[133] | |||
Corfe Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–13th century | Extensive ruins | Besieged and slighted during the English Civil War.[134] | |||
Lulworth Castle | Sham castle | c.1610 | Restored | Hunting lodge, gutted by fire 1929.[135] | |||
Pennsylvania Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1800 | Intact | Private | On the Isle of Portland, built for John Penn to designs by James Wyatt.[136] | ||
Portland Castle | Artillery fort | 1539 | Intact | Private residence 1816–70.[137] | |||
Rufus Castle | Castle | 15th century | Ruins | Private | Also known as Bow and Arrow Castle.[138] | ||
Sherborne Old Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Ruins | Replaced by 16–17th house which became known as Sherborne Castle.[139] | |||
Woodsford Castle | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Habitable | Landmark Trust | [140] |
Castles of which only earthworks, fragments or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Paull Holme Tower | Tower House | 15th century | Ruins | Private | Originally part of larger house, roofless.[142] | |
Skipsea Castle | Motte and Bailey | 11th century | Earthworks | Well-preserved earthworks.[143] | ||
Wressle Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1390 | Ruins | Private, farm | South range remains, inhabited until gutted by fire in 1796.[144] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Bodiam Castle | Quadrangular castle | c.1385 | Ruins | Wide moat.[145] | ||
Camber Castle | Artillery fort | c.1540 | Ruins | "Dismantled" 1642 after sea receded.[146] | ||
Hastings Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Fragmentary ruins | Local Authority |
Ruined by 1399.[147] | |
Herstmonceux Castle | Fortified mansion | 15th century | Restored | Queen's University | Brick, interior dismantled 1777, restored 20th century, former home of Royal Greenwich Observatory, now Study Centre.[148] | |
Lewes Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Ruins | Unusual in having two mottes[149] | ||
Pevensey Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Ruins | Castle built within surviving walls of Roman fort of Saxon Shore.[150] | ||
Rye Castle (Ypres Tower) | Tower House | c.1250 | Intact | Originally called Baddings Tower.[151] |
Castles of which only earthworks remain include:[141]
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Pleshey Castle is a good example of a motte-and-bailey castle: only earthworks and a medieval brick bridge remain.[152]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Colchester Castle | Tower keep | 11th century | Intact | Local authority |
Reduced in height in 17th century.[153] | |
Hadleigh Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Fragmentary remains | [154] | ||
Hedingham Castle | Tower keep | 1130–40 | Substantially intact | Castle demolished 17th century except for keep, well-preserved interior despite fire of 1954.[155] | ||
Walden Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | Remains of keep.[156] |
Castles of which only earthworks, fragments or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Berkeley Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Intact | Largely unaltered until 1920s, when interior modernised by 8th Earl of Berkeley.[157] | ||
Beverstone Castle | Pentagonal castle | 13–15th century | Ruins | NGS | 17th century house built within ruins.[158] | |
St. Briavel's Castle | Keep and bailey | 13th century | Habitable | Youth hostel.[159] | ||
Sudeley Castle | Quadrangular castle | 15th century | Restored | Restored as country house 19th century.[160] | ||
Thornbury Castle | Fortified house | c.1511 | Substantially intact | Hotel | Restored 19th century.[161] |
Castles of which no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Tower of London | Concentric castle | 11–13th century | Intact | Historic Royal Palaces | White Tower built c.1077–1100, curtain walls added 13th century, working portcullis.[162] |
Castles of which only earthworks, fragments or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Radcliffe Tower | Tower house | 1403 | Fragment | Local authority |
Ruinous tower formerly incorporated in timber house.[163] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Calshot Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Substantially intact | Altered 18–20th centuries, in use until 1961.[164] | ||
Hurst Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Substantially intact | Repaired and refortified 19th century.[165] | ||
Netley Castle | Artillery fort | 16–19th century | Rebuilt | Convalescent home | Remodelled and extended 1885–90.[166] | |
Odiham Castle | Shell keep and bailey | Early 13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Local authority |
Built by King John.[167] | |
Portchester Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–12th century | Extensive ruins | Built within surviving walls of Roman fort of the Saxon Shore.[168] | ||
Southampton Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Fragments | North bailey wall survives.[169] | ||
Southsea Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Rebuilt | Local authority |
Altered several times.[170] | |
Winchester Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragment | Local authority |
Great hall survives, reroofed in 1873.[171] | |
Wolvesey Castle | Castle | 12th century | Ruins | [172] |
Castles of which little or no traces remain include:[141]
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Ewyas Harold Castle is recorded in the Domesday Book and was probably built c.1048.[173]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Brampton Bryan Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Ruins | Private | Gatehouse survives.[174] | |
Clifford Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragments | Private | Building At Risk.[175] | |
Croft Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14th century | Rebuilt | Converted to 16/17th century house.[176] | ||
Downton Castle | Neo-romantic castle | c.1774–8 | Intact | Private | Altered and extended 1860–70.[177] | |
Eastnor Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1811–20 | Intact | By Robert Smirke.[178] | ||
Goodrich Castle | Concentric castle | 12–13th century | Ruins | Partly demolished during English Civil War.[179] | ||
Hampton Court | Fortified manor house | 1427 | Intact | Remodelled in 1830–40s.[180] | ||
Kentchurch Court | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Fragment | Medieval tower and gateway survive, remainder largely rebuilt by Nash 1795–1807.[181] | ||
Kinnersley Castle | Castle | Medieval | Rebuilt | 16–17th century house on site of medieval castle.[182] | ||
Longtown Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Circular keep.[183] | ||
Pembridge Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Partly habitable | Private | Reconstructed 20th century.[184] | |
Snodhill Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Fragmentary ruins | [185] | ||
Treago Castle | Fortified manor house | 15–16th century | Restored | Private | Altered 17–19th centuries.[186] | |
Wigmore Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Partly dismantled 1643.[187] | ||
Wilton Castle | Castle | 13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Remains incorporated in 19th century house.[188] |
Castles of which only earthworks, fragments or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Berkhamsted Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Unoccupied since 1495.[189] | ||
Hertford Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–12th century | Fragments | Local authority | 15th century gatehouse survives, altered and extended 18–20th centuries.[190] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Carisbrooke Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Substantially intact | Refortified in 1590s as artillery fortress, former seat of the Governor of the Isle of Wight.[191] | ||
Norris Castle | Neo-romantic castle | c.1800 | Intact | Private | Gothic Revival, by James Wyatt.[192] | |
Yarmouth Castle | Artillery fort | 1547 | Substantially intact | Altered 17th century.[193] | ||
West Cowes Castle | Artillery fort | 16–19th century | Rebuilt | Royal Yacht Squadron | Fragments of 16th century structure incorporated in later building.[194] |
Castles of which only vestiges remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Cromwell's Castle | Artillery tower | 1651 | Substantially intact | [195] | ||
Star Castle | Artillery fort | 1593 | Intact | Hotel | Important and complete example of Elizabethan fort.[196] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Allington Castle | Fortified house | 13–14th century | Restored | Wedding venue | Restored 1905–1929.[197] | |
Canterbury Castle | Tower keep | 12th century | Ruins | Local Authority |
Demolished 1792.[198] | |
Chiddingstone Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 19th century | Intact | 17th century building converted to castle in 19th century.[199] | ||
Chilham Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Intact | NGS | Keep survives with Jacobean house.[200] | |
Cooling Castle | Keep and bailey | 1380s | Part ruined | Wedding venue | Well-preserved gatehouse survives, barns used for events.[201] | |
Deal Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Intact | Formerly residence of Captain of the Cinque Ports.[202] | ||
Dover Castle | Concentric castle | 12–13th century | Intact | Adapted for modern warfare 18–19th centuries.[203] | ||
Eynsford Castle | Castle | 12th century | Fragmentary ruins | [204] | ||
Hever Castle | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Restored | Restored early 19th century, working portcullis.[205] | ||
Kingsgate Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 18–19th century | Intact | Private apartments | Built c.1760, rebuilt late 19th century.[206] | |
Leeds Castle | Castle | 12–15th century | Restored | Extensively rebuilt in 1822 and 1926.[207] | ||
Leybourne Castle | Castle | 13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Private | 16th century house partly incorporating ruins, rebuilt 1931.[208] | |
Lullingstone Castle | Semi-fortified house | 1543–80 | Fragment | 16th century gatehouse incorporated into later house.[209] | ||
Lympne Castle | Fortified house | 13–14th century | Restored | Wedding venue | Restored and extended 1907–12.[210] | |
Penshurst Place | Fortified manor house | 14–15th century | Fragment | Remodelled 19th century, single tower and stretch of wall survive from fortifications of c.1400.[211] | ||
Rochester Castle | Tower keep | 1127 | Ruins | Keep 125 ft (38 m) high to top of turrets.[212][213] | ||
St Leonard's Tower, West Malling | Tower keep | 1080 | Ruins | [214] | ||
Saltwood Castle | Castle | 12–14th century | Part restored | Private | [215] | |
Sandgate Castle | Artillery fort | 1539–40 | Substantially intact | Private | Altered 1805–6.[216] | |
Scotney Castle | Fortified manor house | 1378–80 | Fragment | Single surviving tower incorporated in later house.[217] | ||
Sissinghurst Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Rebuilt | No fortifications remaining.[218] | ||
Starkey Castle | Manor house | 14th century | Fragment | Private | Fine medieval hall-house remains from possibly fortified manor house.[219] | |
Stone Castle | Tower | 12th century | Intact | Wedding venue | Medieval tower incorporated in building of 1825.[220] | |
Sutton Valence Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | [221] | ||
Tonbridge Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragment | Local authority |
Gatehouse survives.[222] | |
Upnor Castle | Artillery fort | 1559–67, 1599–1601 | Substantially intact | [223] | ||
Walmer Castle | Artillery fort | 1539 | Intact | Residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 18th century.[224] | ||
Westenhanger Castle | Fortified manor house | c.1343 | Fragment | Wedding venue | 18th century farmouse built within ruins.[225] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
|
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Ashton Hall | Tower house | 14–19th century | Intact | Lancaster Golf Club | Near Stodday, 14th century tower incorporated in later building.[226] | |
Borwick Hall | Pele tower | 14th century | Intact | Outdoor education centre | Incorporated in mainly 16th century building.[227] | |
Clitheroe Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–12th century | Ruins | [228] | ||
Hornby Castle | Keep | 13th century | Fragment | Private | Keep rebuilt early 16th century, incorporated in 18–19th century house.[229] | |
Lancaster Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–12th century | Intact | Local authority |
Prison from 1745, 20th century Shire Hall replaced medieval buildings, now Crown Court.[230] | |
Thurland Castle | Castle | 14–15th century | Rebuilt | Private apartments | Near Tunstall, ruins rebuilt in 19th century.[231] | |
Turton Tower | Pele tower | 15th century | Intact | Incorporated in later building.[232] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Ashby de la Zouch Castle | Keep | 12–15th century | Fragmentary ruins | Fortified manor converted to castle in 1474, slighted during English Civil War.[233] | ||
Belvoir Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 17–19th century | Intact | Duke of Rutland |
Rebuilt 1655–68 incorporating fragments of medieval castle, remodelled 1801–30.[234] | |
Kirby Muxloe Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1480–3 | Fragmentary ruins | Unfinished.[235] | ||
Leicester Castle | Castle | 12–13th century | Fragments | Local authority |
Great hall survives, much altered.[236] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
|
Goltho Castle was built on the site of a Saxon fortified dwelling of c.850, established by excavation.[237]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bolingbroke Castle | Enclosure castle | 13–14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Slighted after brief siege in 1643.[238] | ||
Grimsthorpe Castle | Castle | 13th century | Fragment | Remodelled in 18th and 19th centuries, retains 13th century south-east tower.[239] | ||
Hussey Tower | Tower house | 14–15th century | Ruins | [240] | ||
Kyme Tower | Castle | 14th century | Fragment | Private | [241] | |
Lincoln Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–13th century | Substantially intact | Local Authority |
Double motte and bailey.[242] | |
Rochford Tower | Fortified house | 15–16th century | Fragment | Private | 2 miles east of Boston.[243] | |
Somerton Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1281–1305 | Fragment | Private | Single tower survives, adjoining 17th century building.[244] | |
Tattershall Castle | Tower | 1430s | Intact | Brick tower built for Ralph Cromwell, restored 1911-25 by Lord Curzon.[245] | ||
Torksey Castle | Semi-fortified house | 16th century | Fragmentary ruins | Private | Slighted during English Civil War.[246] |
Castles of which no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brimstage Hall | Tower house | c.1398 | Substantially intact | Crafts centre | Tower incorporated in later building of 16th and 19th centuries.[247] | |
Leasowe Castle | Sham castle | 16–19th century | Intact | Hotel | Built 1593, extended 1600–42 and 19th century.[248] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
|
The surviving motte of Thetford Castle is one of the highest in England,[249] about 80 ft (24 m) high.[250]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baconsthorpe Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Fragmentary ruins | [251] | ||
Burgh Castle | Motte and bailey | 12th century | No visible remains | / Norfolk Archaeological Trust | Site of medieval motte and bailey castle within surviving walls of Roman fort of Saxon Shore.[252] | |
Caister Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1432–46 | Fragmentary ruins | Moated, largely brick, built by John Fastolf, a relatively intact 90 ft (27 m) tower remains.[253] | ||
Castle Acre Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–12th century | Fragmentary remains | Extensive earthworks.[254] | ||
Castle Rising Castle | Keep | c.1138 | Ruins | [255] | ||
Claxton Castle | Castle | 14–15th century | Fragmentary ruins | Private | [256] | |
Norwich Castle | Keep | c.1095–1110 | Intact | Prison during 18–19th centuries.[257] | ||
Oxburgh Hall | Fortified manor house | c.1482 | Intact | 18th and 19th century additions.[258] | ||
Weeting Castle | Fortified manor house | 12th century | Fragmentary ruins | [259] |
Castles of which little or no traces remain include:[141]
|
Fotheringhay Castle was the scene of the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587.[260]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Astwell Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Fragment | Private, farm | Gatehouse survives alongside 17th century house.[261] | |
Barnwell Castle | Rectangular castle | c.1266 | Ruins | Private | [262] | |
Rockingham Castle | Motte and bailey | 13–19th century | Rebuilt | 13th century gatehouse survives, largely rebuilt 16th century, remodelled 1660 and by Anthony Salvin in 19th century.[263] | ||
Thorpe Waterville Castle | Castle | 14th century | Fragment | Private | Great hall with fine open roof survives, altered for use as a barn.[264] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
|
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alnham Vicars Pele | Pele tower | 14th century | Restored | Private | [265] | |
Alnwick Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Restored | Duke of Northumberland |
Remodelled by Robert Adam and Anthony Salvin.[266] | |
Aydon Castle | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Intact | Converted to farmhouse 17th century.[267] | ||
Bamburgh Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Restored | Lord Armstrong |
Ruinous by 1704, extensively restored 1894–1904.[268] | |
Barmoor Castle | Tower house | 14–19th century | Rebuilt | Private | 19th century mansion incorporating remains of 14th century building.[269] | |
Beaufront Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 1836–1841 | Intact | Private | 19th century mansion on site of 15th century tower house.[270] | |
Bellister Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | Ruins adjoining 17th century house.[271] | |
Belsay Castle | Tower house | 1439–60 | Intact | Later ruined building attached.[272] | ||
Berwick Castle | Castle | 12–13th century | Fragmentary remains | [273] | ||
Bitchfield Castle | Pele tower | 14th century | Restored | Private | Incorporated in later mansion.[274] | |
Blenkinsop Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Ruins | Private | Incorporated in 19th century house.[275] | |
Bothal Castle | Castle | 14th century | Rebuilt | Private | Extensively restored 19th century.[276] | |
Bywell Castle | Castle | 15th century | Fragments | Private | Gatehouse survives.[277] | |
Callaly Castle | Pele tower | 14–15th century | Intact | Private apartments | Incorporated in later country house.[278] | |
Cartington Castle | Pele tower and extensions | 14–15th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | [279] | |
Chillingham Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1344 | Intact | Altered 17–19th centuries, restored after 1982.[280] | ||
Chipchase Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Intact | Incorporated in Jacobean house, altered 18–19th centuries.[281] | ||
Cocklaw Tower | Tower house | 14–15th century | Shell | Private, farm | Near Wall.[282] | |
Cockle Park Tower | Tower house | c.1517 | Substantially intact | Newcastle University | [283] | |
Corbridge Vicar's Pele | Pele tower | 1318 | Intact | Re-roofed 1910.[284] | ||
Coupland Castle | Tower house | 16–17th century | Restored | Private | Later additions.[285] | |
Craster Tower | Pele tower | 14–15th century | Intact | Holiday accommodation | Incorporated in later building.[286] | |
Crawley Tower | Pele tower | 14th century | Ruins | Private | A cottage was built within the walls in the 18th century.[287] | |
Cresswell Castle | Pele tower | 15th century | Ruin | 18th century parapet.[288] | ||
Dilston Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Ruins | Altered 16–17th century, later buildings demolished.[289] | ||
Dunstanburgh Castle | Keep and bailey | 14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Spectacular coastal setting.[290] | ||
Edlingham Castle | Keep and bailey | 14th century | Fragmentary ruins | [291] | ||
Elsdon Tower | Pele tower | 16th century | Intact | Private | Altered, rectory until 1960, restored 1990s.[292] | |
Embleton Tower | Pele tower | 14th century | Intact | Private | 19th century vicarage attached.[293] | |
Etal Castle | Castle | 14th century | Fragmentary ruins | [294] | ||
Featherstone Castle | Castle | 14th century | Intact | Private | 14th century tower, three further towers added 18–19th century.[295] | |
Ford Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14th century | Substantially intact | Private | Converted into mansion 17th century.[296] | |
Halton Castle | Tower house | 13–14th century | Intact | Private | Attached to later house.[297] | |
Harbottle Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Northumberland National Park |
Captured by Robert Bruce in 1318.[298] | |
Haughton Castle | Tower house | 13–14th century | Restored | Private | Altered 18–19th centuries.[299] | |
Hexham Moot Hall and Old Gaol | Fortified towers | 14–15th century | Intact | Probably once connected by bailey wall, AD1415 list of castles has "Turris de Hexham".[300][301] | ||
Horsley Tower, Longhorsley | Pele tower | 16th century | Intact | Private | [302] | |
Langley Castle | Tower house | c.1350 | Restored | Hotel | Restored 1890s.[303] | |
Lemmington Hall | Tower house | 15th century | Restored | Wedding venue | Incorporated in later house.[304] | |
Lindisfarne Castle | Artillery fort | 16th century | Restored | Remodelled by Edwin Lutyens 1901.[305] | ||
Mitford Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragmentary ruins | [306] | ||
Morpeth Castle | Castle | 1342–9 | Fragments | Landmark Trust | Only gatehouse and a section of wall remain.[307] | |
Norham Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Ruins | Keep remodelled 1422–5, partly rebuilt 1513–15.[308] | ||
Preston Tower, Ellingham | Pele tower | c.1400 | Fragment | South wall remains, with two of the original four turrets.[309] | ||
Prior Castell's Tower | Tower house | 15–16th century | Substantially intact | [310] | ||
Prudhoe Castle | Castle | 12–14th century | Ruins | [311] | ||
Shilbottle Tower | Pele tower | 15th century | Restored | Private | Incorporated into a vicarage.[312] | |
Shortflatt Tower | Pele tower | 14–15th century | Restored | Wedding venue | Incorporated in later house.[313] | |
Thirlwall Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Northumberland National Park |
Built with stone from Hadrian's Wall.[314] | |
Warkworth Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Ruins | [315] | ||
Whittingham Tower | Pele tower | 13–14th century | Restored | Private | Converted for use as almshouses in 1845.[316] | |
Whitton Tower | Pele tower | c.1386 | Intact | Holiday accommodation | Near Rothbury, well-preserved.[317] | |
Willimoteswick Castle | Fortified manor house | 16th century | Ruins | Private, farm | Incorporates remains of earlier building, largely rebuilt 1900.[318] |
Castles of which little remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayton Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Fragment | Local authority |
[319] | |
Barden Tower | Castle | 15th century | Ruins | [320] | ||
Bolton Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14th century | Ruins | Besieged and slighted during English Civil War.[321] | ||
Cawood Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1374–88 | Fragments | Landmark Trust | Largely demolished 1750, gatehouse survives.[322] | |
Clifford's Tower | Keep | 13th century | Restored | Reduced in height 1596.[323] | ||
Crayke Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Restored | Private | 18th and 19th century additions and alterations.[324] | |
Danby Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Private, farm | Partly used as farm buildings.[325] | |
Gilling Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Intact | St. Martin's Ampleforth School | 16th and 18th century additions and alterations.[326] | |
Hazlewood Castle | Castle | 13–18th century | Rebuilt | Hotel | Altered 18th and 20th centuries, formerly Carmelite retreat centre.[327] | |
Hellifield Peel | Tower house | 14–15th century | Restored | Hotel | Restored 2005.[328] | |
Helmsley Castle | Castle | 12–13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Severely slighted 1645.[329] | ||
Hornby Castle | Courtyard castle | 14–15th century | Restored | Private | Converted to country house by John Carr, 18th century.[330] | |
Knaresborough Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Fragmentary ruins | Duchy of Lancaster |
[331] | |
Marmion Tower | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Fragment | Surviving gatehouse of Tanfield Castle.[332] | ||
Middleham Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Ruins | [333] | ||
(Old) Mulgrave Castle | Enclosure castle | 12–13th century | Fragmentary ruins | Marquess of Normanby |
Superseded by 18–19th century castellated mansion also known as Mulgrave Castle.[334] | |
Nappa Hall | Fortified manor house | 1459 | Intact | Private | Enlarged 17th century, little altered since.[335] | |
Pickering Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Ruins | [336] | ||
Ravensworth Castle | Castle | 14th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | [337] | |
Richmond Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Ruins | Keep 100 ft (30 m) high.[338] | ||
Ripley Castle | Tower house | 15–16th century | Rebuilt | Extended 1783–6 in Gothic Revival style.[339] | ||
Scarborough Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Ruins | [340] | ||
Sheriff Hutton Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1382 | Fragmentary ruins | Private | [341] | |
Skelton Castle | Castellated house | 13–19th century | Intact | Private | 18–19th century house incorporates remains of medieval castle.[342] | |
Skipton Castle | Castle | 12–17th century | Restored | Partly demolished 1649, rebuilt 1657–8.[343] | ||
Snape Castle | Castle | 15–18th century | Partly ruined | Private | Mostly reconstructed 17th century.[344] | |
South Cowton Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Restored | Private | Altered 19th century, farmhouse.[345] | |
Spofforth Castle | Fortified manor house | 13–15th century | Fragmentary ruins | [346] | ||
Whorlton Castle | Castle | 14–16th century | Fragmentary ruins | Remains of gatehouse.[347] | ||
Wilton Castle | Neo-romantic castle | c.1810 | Intact | Private apartments | By Smirke on site of medieval castle.[348] |
Castles of which little remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Halloughton Manor House | Pele tower | 14th century | Intact | Private | Attached to later building.[349] | |
Newark Castle | Castle | 12–14th century | Ruins | / Newark District Council | Gatehouse, part of curtain wall and a tower remain.[350] | |
Nottingham Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Nottingham City Council |
Demolished 1651, later mansion on site, much restored 14th century gatehouse remains.[351] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bampton Castle | Quadrangular castle | c.1315 | Fragment | Private | Parts of gatehouse and curtain wall survive in later house, Ham Court.[352] | |
Broughton Castle | Fortified manor house | 14–15th century | Intact | Remodelled 15–18th centuries.[353] | ||
Hanwell Castle | Castellated house | 15–16th century | Fragment | Private | Large surviving tower of unfortified building.[354] | |
Oxford Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–12th century | Fragment | Hotel | Motte and the unusual, possibly Saxon, St. George's Tower.[355] | |
Rotherfield Greys Castle | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Fragment | Towers and section of wall survive, close to Greys Court.[356] | ||
Shirburn Castle | Quadrangular castle | c.1378 | Rebuilt | Private | Originally stone, largely rebuilt in brick c.1720, remodelled 19th century.[357] | |
Wallingford Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Slighted 1652, impressive earthworks remain.[358] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Oakham Castle | Motte and bailey | 12–13th century | Fragment | / Rutland County Council | Aisled great hall built 1180–1190 survives.[359] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Acton Burnell Castle | Fortified manor house | 13th century | Ruins | Shell, used as a barn in the 18th century.[360] | ||
Alberbury Castle | Castle | 13th century | Fragmentary remains | [361] | ||
Bridgnorth Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | Slighted 1645.[362] | ||
Broncroft Castle | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Intact | Private | Renovated 19th century.[363] | |
Cheney Longville Castle | Fortified manor house | 14–17th century | Part habitable | Private | Building At Risk.[364] | |
Clun Castle | Keep and bailey | 13th century | Fragmentary remains | Ruins of keep built onto side of motte.[365] | ||
Hopton Castle | Keep and bailey | 14th century | Ruins | [366] | ||
Ludlow Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–14th century | Ruins | Earl of Powis |
One of the great Welsh border castles.[367] | |
Moreton Corbet Castle | Keep | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | Adjoining ruins of 16th century building.[368] | ||
Quatford Castle | Neo-romantic castle | c.1830 | Intact | Private | Nearby are earthwork remains of the medieval Quatford Castle.[369] | |
Red Castle | Castle | 13th century | Fragmentary remains. | Adapted as feature of Hawkstone Park, 18th century landscape garden. Building At Risk.[370] | ||
Rowton Castle | Sham castle | 18–19th century | Intact | Hotel | On site of medieval castle, remodelled 1809–12 by George Wyatt.[371] | |
Shrewsbury Castle | Castle | 12th century | Rebuilt | Shropshire Council |
Restored and extended 1642, altered c.1790 by Telford.[372] | |
Stokesay Castle | Fortified manor house | 13–14th century | Intact | Restored 19th century.[373] | ||
Wattlesborough Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Fragment | Private | Near Rowton, keep/tower survives, adjoining Wattlesborough Hall.[374] | |
Whittington Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Fragments | Local community |
Gatehouse towers survive.[375] |
Castles of which only earthworks or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banwell Castle | Neo-romantic castle | c.1848 | Intact | Restaurant | Architect not known.[376] | |
Beckington Castle | 17th century | Rebuilt | Company HQ | Medieval remains incorporated in later building.[377] | ||
Dunster Castle | Castle | 13–19th century | Rebuilt | Existing house dates largely from c.1571, with 18–19th century alterations.[378] | ||
Farleigh Hungerford Castle | Enclosure castle | 14–15th century | Ruins | On high ground above the River Frome.[379] | ||
Newton St Loe Castle | Fortified manor house | 14th century | Fragment | Bath Spa University | Large tower and gatehouse, altered 16–17th century.[380] | |
Nunney Castle | Quadrangular castle | 1373 | Ruins | Towers originally had conical roofs, north wall collapsed 1910.[381] | ||
Stogursey Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–12th century | Fragmentary remains | Landmark Trust | 17th century house built within remains of castle.[382] | |
Sutton Court | Fortified manor house | 14–15th century | Fragment | Private apartments | Short length of embattled wall and a tower survive, incorporated in large house, restored 19th century.[383] | |
Taunton Castle | Shell keep | 13th century | Restored | Now houses Somerset County Museum, Castle Hotel incorporates remains of an outer gatehouse.[384] | ||
Walton Castle | Sham castle | 1615–20 | Restored | Private | Restored as private house 20th century.[385] | |
Wells Bishop's Palace | Fortified palace | 13–15th century | Substantially intact | Church of England |
Adjacent to cathedral, residence of the Bishop of Bath and Wells.[386] |
Castles of which only earthworks, fragments or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conisbrough Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Ruins | Cylindrical keep, castle ruinous before English Civil War, so escaped slighting.[387] | ||
Tickhill Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–14th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | Ruined gatehouse and parts of curtain walls remain.[388] |
Castles of which little or nothing remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alton Castle | Castle | 12–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Youth centre | Cliff-top position, site partly occupied by 19th century building.[389] | |
Caverswall Castle | Enclosure castle | c.1275 | Substantially intact | Private | Moated, walls and towers reduced in height, 17th century mansion built within.[390] | |
Chartley Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | Altered in 13th century to form enclosure castle, abandoned by 1485.[391] | |
Eccleshall Castle | Castle | 14th century | Fragmentary remains | Private | Remains partly incorporated into house of c.1695, rebuilt 19th century.[392] | |
Stafford Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–12th century | Earthworks | / Stafford Borough Council | Medieval keep partly rebuilt 19th century, then partly demolished.[393] | |
Stourton Castle | Castle | 14–15th century | Fragment | Private | Remains incorporated in later buildings.[394] | |
Tamworth Castle | Shell keep | 11–13th century | Rebuilt | Local authority |
Largely rebuilt 16–18th centuries.[395] | |
Tutbury Castle | Motte and bailey | 12–15th century | Fragmentary ruins | Slighted 1647–8, 19th century folly stands on motte.[396] |
Castles of which only earthworks or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bungay Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Fragmentary remains | / Bungay Castle Trust | Abandoned c.1365.[397] | |
Clare Castle | Motte and bailey | 11th century | Fragmentary remains | Motte 53 ft (16 m) high.[398] | ||
Eye Castle | Motte and bailey | 11th century | Fragmentary remains | Motte over 40 ft (12 m) high.[399] | ||
Framlingham Castle | Enclosure castle | 12th century | Ruins | Used as poor house 17–19th centuries.[400] | ||
Mettingham Castle | Fortified manor house | c.1342 | Fragmentary remains | Private | Gatehouse survives.[401] | |
Orford Castle | Keep | 1165–73 | Intact | Unique polygonal keep survives.[402] | ||
Wingfield Castle | Castle | c.1385 | Fragment | Private | South curtain wall, gatehouse and east drawbridge survive, with 16–17th century house.[403] |
Castles of which only little or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Farnham Castle | Keep and bailey | 12th century | Substantially intact | Shell keep replaced earlier keep part buried, part remodelled 17th century.[404] | ||
Guildford Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Ruins | Local authority |
Tower keep survives, roofless since c.17th century.[405] |
Castles of which little remains include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hylton Castle | Tower house | c.1400 | Ruins | Large gatehouse tower, incorporated into 18th century house, since demolished.[406] | ||
Newcastle Castle | Keep and bailey | 1172–77 | Restored | / Newcastle City Council | Keep and gatehouse survive.[407] | |
Old Hollinside | Fortified manor house | 13th century | Ruins | On slope overlooking River Derwent.[408] | ||
Ravensworth Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14–19th century | Ruins | Private | Two towers of medieval castle survive, amidst ruins of later building. Building At Risk.[409] | |
Tynemouth Castle | Enclosure castle | 13–14th century | Ruins | Built to enclose and protect the priory, modified as artillery castle 16th century.[410] |
Castles of which only earthworks or vestiges remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Astley Castle | Fortified manor house | 13–14th century | Ruins | Landmark Trust | Altered 15–19th centuries, hotel until fire in 1978. Building At Risk.[411] | |
Kenilworth Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–14th century | Ruins | Altered 16th century, slighted 1650.[412] | ||
Maxstoke Castle | Quadrangular castle | 14–15th century | Substantially intact | NGS | Moated, domestic buildings of 15–19th centuries within curtain walls.[413] | |
Warwick Castle | Castle | 13–15th century | Intact | Guy's tower rises 128 ft (39 m), 17th century residential block, remodelled by Anthony Salvin after fire.[414] |
Castles of which little or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dudley Castle | Keep and bailey | 13–14th century | Ruins | Dudley Zoo |
Slighted in 1647, then rebuilt and inhabited until destroyed by fire in 1750, partly restored 19th century.[415] |
Castles of which only little or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amberley Castle | Castle | 1377–82 | Partly habitable | Hotel | Remodelled 16th century and later, incorporates 12th century manor, working portcullis.[416] | |
Arundel Castle | Keep and bailey | 12–13th century | Heavily restored | Duke of Norfolk |
Remodelled 1791–1815 and 1890–1903.[417] | |
Bramber Castle | Keep and bailey | 11–12th century | Fragmentary remains | Commanding position, earthworks and fragment of wall remain.[418] | ||
Halnaker House | Fortified manor house | 13–14th century | Ruins | Private | Altered 18th century, fell into ruin 1880s, replaced by later house of same name.[419] |
Castles of which only earthworks or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dobroyd Castle | Sham Castle | 1866–9 | Intact | Activity centre | By John Gibson.[420] | |
Harewood Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Ruins | Private | Shell of tower, substantially intact, within Harewood House estate.[421] | |
Pontefract Castle | Enclosure castle | 12–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Local authority |
Royal castle, withstood three sieges during English Civil War, afterwards dismantled.[422] | |
Sandal Castle | Motte and bailey | 12th century | Fragmentary remains | Well-preserved earthworks, excavated site with visitor centre.[423] |
Castles of which only little or no traces remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Devizes Castle | Neo-romantic castle | 19th century | Intact | Private apartments | Present building begun 1842 on site of important medieval castle.[424] | |
Longford Castle | Sham castle | 1591 | Intact | Earl of Radnor | Remodelled 18th century.[425] | |
Ludgershall Castle | Ringwork | 11–13th century | Fragmentary remains | Remains of a tower and extensive earthworks.[426] | ||
Old Sarum Castle | Motte and bailey | 11–13th century | Fragmentary remains | On site of Iron Age hill fort.[427] | ||
Old Wardour Castle | Castle | c.1393 | Ruins | Remodelled 16–17th centuries, superseded by Palladian building known as New Wardour Castle.[428] |
Castles of which only earthworks remain include:[141]
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Name | Type | Date | Condition | Image | Ownership / Access | Notes |
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Caldwall Castle | Fortified manor house | 15–16th century | Fragment | Private | Single surviving tower, in Kidderminster, Caldwall or Caldwell.[429] | |
Hartlebury Castle | Fortified manor house | 15th century | Rebuilt | Church of England |
15th century remains incorporated in later buildings, residence of Bishop of Worcester until 2007, houses Worcestershire County Museum.[430] | |
Holt Castle | Castle | 14–19th century | Intact | Wedding venue | Medieval tower incorporated in later buildings.[431] | |
Worcester Castle | Castle | 13–14th century | Fragment | Church of England | Edgar Tower, now entrance to College Green, probably castle gatehouse.[432] |
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Accessible open space | |
Castle open to the public | |
English Heritage | |
Historic House open to the public | |
Museum | |
National Trust | |
NGS | Private, grounds open under the National Gardens Scheme |
Name | Usually the name of the surviving building, but not always—for instance the remains of the historic Bampton Castle were incorporated in a later building known as Ham Court |
Type | Usually the type of castle represented by the predominant surviving fortified remains |
Date | Usually the dates of the principal building works relating to the surviving remains |
Condition | An indication as to what remains of the original castle structure |
Image | The building or site as it currently exists |
Ownership /Access |
Brief information relating to the current ownership or use of the site, an icon signifying that the site is frequently open to the public |
Notes | Brief description or information of note |
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BLB | britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |
PSC | Pastscape |
R1 | Retrieved March 8, 2011 |
R2 | Retrieved June 4, 2011 |
R3 | Retrieved June 14, 2011 |
R4 | Retrieved June 15, 2011 |
R5 | Retrieved July 10, 2011 |
R6 | September 8, 2011 |
R7 | Retrieved September 10, 2011 |
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