Looking down into the inner, hexagonal courtyard.

"Until the seventeenth century, when the south-west side of the house was blown out in an explosion,
the Central Courtyard would have been a darker and more claustrophobic place. On all sides,
the building rose to a height of four or five storeys. Most of the original medieval doors and windows were altered in the 1570s,
but there are sufficient traces for us to be able to work out what they looked like.

"In the centre of the courtyard was a well. Evidence from other castles and palaces
suggests that it would have been covered by an elaborate roof. This would have been carved and painted
with the emblems and heraldry of first the Lovels and later the Arundells,
emphasizing their ancestry and wealth."