Remains of old castle at Dale Castle and forecourt walls

The remains of an old castle at Dale Castle include the castle structure and forecourt walls. The castle is primarily built of rubble stone, which is heavily covered in creeper. It features a complete basement storey and a truncated ground floor, with the north wall removed to create a continuous floor level with the forecourt. The battlements date from around 1910. The basement has a west-facing door with stone voussoirs and a small window to the right. The east wall of the ground floor features a tall Tudor-arched doorway with large blank windows on either side, all with stone voussoirs, likely from the early 19th century.

From the castle, a rubble stone battlemented wall extends westward, which partly formed the front wall of a hipped-roof building that was visible in 19th-century views but was demolished around 1910. The wall then turns north and west again, with lean-to outbuildings located to the south. At the southwest corner, there is a battlemented square turret, and the wall continues north to enclose the castle forecourt, featuring a large rubble gateway. This gateway has square piers with impost bands, a broad stone-voussoir elliptical archway, battlements on a projecting flat course, and taller corner square battlemented turrets. The wall continues north and then returns lower to the east along the south side of the stable yard, which has a shallow curved projection into the forecourt with a plain early 20th-century Tudor-arched entry.

Inside the basement of the old castle, there is a large plastered curved stone vault. The south wall contains three recesses with cambered heads. The stone corbelled vaulting appears to have been designed for chimneys in the center and right openings, with a small window in the center.