The Ypres Tower is thought to have been built in 1249 as part of the town’s defences and is the oldest building open to the public in Rye. The Tower ...
Sussex
Verdley Castle
Earthworks and masonry remains of a probable 13th century hunting lodge, ruined in the 16th century. The topography of the site means that it could ...
Sedgwick Castle
Sedgwick Park House is a privately owned home, set within 100 acres of rolling countryside and the gardens and ground floor are occasionally open to ...
Scotney Castle
Scotney is not one but two houses. At the top of the hill is the new house, designed by Anthony Salvin in Elizabethan style and built in 1837 for ...
Pevensey Castle
With a history stretching back over 16 centuries, Pevensey Castle chronicles more graphically than any other fortress the story of Britain's south ...
Lewes Castle
Lewes Castle and adjacent Barbican House Museum are now open to the public again. There was a Saxon castle here in very early times, on the site of ...
Knepp Castle
The castle is visible from the road and the estate is home to a variety of events including polo. Some 500 acres are now part of a conservation ...
Hurstmonceux Castle
The castle now houses The Bader International Study Centre, Queen's University (Canada) but the gardens and grounds are occasionally open to the ...
Hastings Castle
Castle and Collegiate Church. Castle built circa 1170, ruined by 1399. The church was founded circa 1090, dissolved in 1547. Foundations of church, ...
Hartfield Castle
Motte and bailey. Excavations in 1912 found it consisted mainly of sandstone rubble and burnt earth with some 14th and 17th century potsherds. ...
Ewhurst Manor
Site of a medieval moated manor house. The moat and an early 14th century gatehouse are the only survivals from this period. The gatehouse is ...
Crowhurst Castle
At Crowhurst are the remains of a once defensible manor house, dating from 1251, which is believed to have been built, or at least owned, by the same ...
