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This arm encloses a roughly triangular-shaped area which is surrounded by a high curtain wall. The arm encloses a roughly triangular-shaped area which is surrounded by a high curtain wall. The tower, which originally must have had three or four storeys, is a long rectangular building built up against the western side of the curtain wall; the lower storey has a barrel vault. Beside it is the gateway which has a round-headed arch and grooves for a portcullis, and on the opposite side of the fosse to it is a building which was probably a barbican; the main part of the castle was thus reached by a drawbridge which no longer exists. Most of these buildings date to the years after 1227, but near the north-eastern side of the curtain wall are the remains of a building which is probably identical with the 'new hall' erected by Robert of Oxford in 1299-1302.

About 250 yards to the south-east of the Castle, towards the end of the peninsula, a round tower of uncertain use and date stands in a circular earthwork. Near a farmhouse where the peninsula is attached to the surrounding area there is a 13th century church, modified later, which may have been erected by the Knights Hospitallers, and which stood outside the walls of the vill.