Almost a castle

There's a rather grand dovecote in the garden of Faulston House, a circular tower of bands of dressed stone and squared flint. Although a dovecote now, the wall suggests a long history of alteration and a series of phases of use. Indeed, the tower is one of four build in the 14th century when the owner was granted licence to defend his manor house with dressed stone and squared flint crenelated walls, towers, moat and drawbridge. Almost a castle. By the mid 17th century after the Civil War the moat was filled, the walls and 3 towers pulled down, with only the tower we see today still standing.