"Early Norman motte and bailey with C12 replacement of defences in stone. Gatehouse, altered in C15 and C16 , is of this period, as is keep and curtain wall. Present house, reputedly on site of chapel to St Nicholas, founded by Eleanor of Aquitaine, is mostly post 1646, when castle dismantled, but is alleged to incorporate portions of the Norman domestic quarters including a round-headed arch" (Magilton 1978, 57). Unknown legibility of earlier evidence on this site.