Keep to Lewes Castle

Lewes Castle Keep is a castle built around 1100 for William de Warenne, with two 13th-century turrets added by John de Warenne, the 7th Earl of Surrey. The structure is made of flint with stone dressings, bands, copings, and quoins, with some repairs done in brick. It features a shell keep with hexagonal towers to the south and west, connected by a wall that is twenty yards long, with remnants of a wall extending to the east and north for approximately twenty-five yards.

The west tower has three stages, with stone bands separating them. It is embattled and includes loops in the corners of the third stage, a shallower second stage, and loops in the wall faces of the lowest stage, which has been replaced by a tall narrow window in the south-west face. The south tower has four stages, also embattled, with a stair-turret to the north that rises slightly above the tower and features a flagpole. The top stage has paired windows located around the corner, while the shallower second and third stages have paired windows in the second stage, located under a string that divides it from the third stage above. The walls below are battered, rising from the motte.

In the court area, there is a stair-turret against the south tower with two Gothick-glazed pointed-arched windows. There is a single-storey flat-roofed and embattled block against the entrance to the south tower, which has a pointed-arched entrance on the east face and a pointed-arched Gothick-glazed window on the front face. Additionally, there is a pointed-arched entrance to a recess to the right. The west tower features a deep recessed entrance that narrows with chalk blocks below the impost level.