PENHOW CASTLE
Site Details
- NPRN
- 221292
- Map Reference
- ST49SW
- Grid Reference
- ST42369086
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Newport
- Old County
- Monmouthshire
- Community
- Penhow
- Type of Site
- CASTLE
- Broad Class
- Defence
- Period
- Medieval;Post Medieval
Site Description
A collection of walls and buildings define an irregular polygon, c.28m N-S by 23m, at Penhow Castle. The enclosure is set at the northern end of a north to south ridge and is ditched around the south. The earliest structure is a much altered twelfth to thirteenth century tower, whilst a three storey house and hall block is thought to be an early seventeenth century structure remodelled c.1700.
An outer enclosure, c.70m east to west and 55m north to south, has been partly traced on the south, apparently enclosing the church (NPRN 307369). Garden features south-west of the castle are thought to be seventeeth to eighteenth century and later.
source: Wrathmell 1990 (Monmouth. Antiquary 6), 17-45
J.Wiles, RCAHMW, 6 May 2004
