The west end is most perfect. Here is a curtain about 12 feet high, the rampart walk of which remains, with traces of an open stair to the battlements. At the south end the wall returns square; and here was probably a plain gateway towards the church. At its north end the north-west angle of the court is capped by a tower semi-circular to the field, but angular towards the court. It has two loops and a fireplace on the ground floor, and appended to it on the north side is a square building of two floors, containing a garderobe in each floor. This is later than the tower. Also on the west wall, near the tower, is a hollow buttress containing two garderobes. The tower opens into the court.
PENRICE CASTLE.
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GROUND PLAN.
The outer court includes the inner one on the east, south, and west sides, terminating at each flank on the steep bank.
It contains the moat of the inner court, and was itself contained within a moat and wall, which probably included the church. Along the west face the wall may be traced to its termination in a flanking tower, evidently built for a pigeon-house.
The position of the castle is bold and striking, and although a mere ruin, and without the usual accessories of ivy and trees, it has a fine appearance from the north.
In common with most of the strongholds of the district, it is reputed to have been ruined by Owain Glyndwr.
From the castle a road descends obliquely towards the mill, placed about half a mile up the stream.