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Starborough Castle is a late medieval fortified house situated near Dormansland in Surrey. Built in the fifteenth century, likely in the 1460s, it comprises a substantial brick-built structure with towers and defensive features characteristic of the period. The castle represents an important example of late medieval domestic architecture in south-eastern England, reflecting the wealth and status of its aristocratic owners during the Wars of the Roses. Though now ruinous, the surviving remains preserve significant portions of the original walls and structural elements, demonstrating the building techniques and design conventions of fifteenth-century fortified residences.
Starborough Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017522. View the official record →
Starborough Castle is a late medieval fortified house situated near Dormansland in Surrey. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017522.
Starborough Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017522.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval moated site, Devils Den. (1.6 km), Large multivallate hillfort at Dry Hill Camp (2.5 km), Village cage and St Peter's Cross (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Starborough Castle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Starborough Castle stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is sandstone and siltstone, interbedded.