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Scotney Castle
In the civil parish of Lamberhurst.
In the historic county of Sussex (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).
Originally an irregular quandrangle castle situated on two islands which was probably constructed in 1378 by Roger de Ashburnham, Conservator of the Peace in Kent and Sussex. All that remains of the castle is a single round, heavy machicolated, tower (the Ashburnham Tower) which was originally one of 4 angle towers. The emplacements of the other 3 can still be seen but the curtain wall survives only as a revetment to the surrounding wet moat. The attached brick house was built in C17. Both the house and castle were reduced to ruins circa 1840.
NB. Harvey lists Scotney castle in Sussex and in Kent. It is now been moved to Kent with border changes sometime in the mid C19, but was originally in Sussex.
This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 170061)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ68953525
PastScape number;
412175
- Web site links
- Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p404-6
Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Kent (Malvern) p71
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p128 [in Kent]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p234 [in Kent]
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p297
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Smithers, David Waldron, 1980, Castles in Kent (Chatham)
Newman, John, 1976, The buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald (Harmondsworth) p506-8
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Chalkley Gould and Downham, 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Kent Vol1 p431-2
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p85-88
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p321 [where placed in Sussex]
Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol8 p134-5
- Journal Articles
- McAvoy, F., 1987, ‘A note on an excavation at Scotney Castle, 1986' Archaeologia Cantiana Vol104 p377–80
Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol138 p209
Hussey, C., 1956 Sept 6, Country Life Vol120 p470-3
Hussey, Edward, 1920, Country Life Vol48 p12-19
Hussey, 1902, Country Life Vol11 p688-92 [slight]
Hussey, Edward, 1887, ‘Scotney Castle' Archaeologia Cantiana Vol17 p38-45
- Guidebooks
- 1979, Scotney Castle Guide Book (National Trust)
Hussey, Christopher, 1957 (2edn), A History of Scotney Castle (Tunbridge Wells)
Hussey, Christopher, 1955, A History of Scotney Castle (Tunbridge Wells)
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