England · Restored
Brownsea Castle
Brownsea Castle is a coastal castle on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, originally built as a mid-16th-century blockhouse and later converted and extended into a large country house with battlemented towers and wings. It combines a compact, crenellated central tower with later red-brick Jacobethan ranges, terraces and a seaward pier, and in the modern era has been restored and reused as a hotel and visitor property.
First raised
1545
Its prime
1905
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1905
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, battlemented four-storey central tower of pale masonry sits at the heart of an asymmetrical red-brick and ashlar country house, with mullioned and transomed windows in tall rectangular openings. To the seaward side are terraced gardens stepping down to a stone retaining wall and beach, with a small round gazebo and a family pier extending into the water. A crenellated gatehouse and clocktower mark the courtyard entrance; a flagpole rises from the central tower parapet.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1905.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Brownsea Castle — including 1 interior: great hall (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Brownsea Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1905 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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