Wales · Partial ruin
Weobley Castle
Castell Weble
Weobley Castle is a 14th-century fortified manor house on the Gower Peninsula in Wales, built mainly by the de la Bere family and now in the care of Cadw. The surviving fabric includes a west gateway, a solar block, a hall and kitchen in the northern range, a chapel block and a fragmentary east range arranged around a central courtyard. The site stands above the Llanrhidian saltmarshes and the Loughor estuary.
Its prime
1380
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1380
What Weobley Castle looked like in its prime.
An irregular rectangular complex of grey rubble masonry with sandstone dressings around doors and windows, forming low enclosing walls around a central courtyard. A west gateway with an upper chamber punctuates the west side, flanked to the north by a solar block and to the south by a round cistern turret and the taller south-west tower. The northern range is the most substantial, containing the hall, porch and service rooms; the eastern range survives only as low, fragmentary masonry. The whole sits on low ground overlooking saltmarsh and estuary.
Its story
The story of Weobley Castle.
Weobley Castle was created largely between 1304 and 1327 by the de la Bere family, originally stewards to William de Braose, Lord of Gower. It is a fortified manor house rather than a military outpost, the hall even has a recess for the display of tapestry or panelling, overlooking the Llanrhidian saltmarshes and the Loughor estuary.
Gateway, solar block, hall and kitchen, chapel block and a fragmentary east range enclose a courtyard, built of rubble masonry with sandstone dressings; the South-West Tower, originally a separate building, may be the oldest part of the structure. Much of the east range may never have been developed beyond its foundations under the de la Beres, but the house was well provided with guestrooms and garderobes.
The de la Beres kept Weobley as their home until the 15th century, after which it was sold and leased to tenants. In 1911 the last owner, Emily Talbot, gave the castle to the state, and the semi-ruinous buildings are now in the care of Cadw.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1380.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Weobley Castle, including 4 interiors: inner courtyard, northern hall and porch, kitchen and service rooms and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
Build Your Own Castle
Recreate Weobley Castle with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1380, a photoreal reconstruction that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
Recreate this castle →Defend this castle →Whose castle
Clans who held Weobley Castle.
The families that held Weobley Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
de la Bere
Built 1304–1327 and held by the de la Bere family, stewards to the de Braose Lords of Gower, until the 15th century.
