The driveway and portcullis into Amberley Castle.
The Bishops of Chichester made Amberley one of their palaces after the Norman invasion . To protect the Bishop from the local peasants, the buildings, which had earlier served as a manor house, were enclosed by a wall in the 14th century, . The licence to crenellate battlemented walls was granted in December 1377, just before the Peasants' Revolt.
Later, Amberley escaped much of the chaos of the Civil War, although there were several cavalry skirmishes nearby on the South Downs. However, after Parliament's capture of Arundel, soldiers were sent to Amberley to seek payment of back taxes and it was them who wrecked much of the inside of the castle. Parliament then seized it in 1648 and sold it to a London merchant.
It is currently a luxurious hotel.