MAXSTOKE CASTLE, Warwickshire is a heavily defended, quadrangular edifice dated to the 1300s & protected by a significant (gargantuan!) moat. Arguably far lesser known than its neighbours, such as Kenilworth & Warwick, it was always intended for domestic comfort as well as defensive assurance. Its then innovative architectural style emerged between the starker, earlier castles and the more comfortable if more ostentatious fortified manor houses of the later 1400s when status spoke louder than military might. It remains lived in and private. And one of Britain’s finest survivors.
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