Harlech Castle Floor Plan (2 of 4)
This floor plan is based closely on Harlech Castle—please refer to the following notes.
Notes on Historical Accuracy
- Since Armourer’s Tower is a proper noun, I’ve kept the British spelling of “armour.” The same spelling is also used for the armor-cleaning workshop. The American spelling looked out-of-place next to the tower’s larger, British English label.
- Armourer’s Tower is sometimes called Chapel Tower now.
- An atilliator is someone who makes crossbows.
- A pentice (or penthouse) is, in the medieval sense, an extension built against the wall of a larger structure having a single-pitched roof.
- The winding seagate path leads down the western cliff-face to Tremadog bay (200 feet below). During a siege, supplies from Ireland could arrive to re-supply the castle’s stores.
- I placed the garden in the north side of the ward because this side will get more sunlight.
- In the north-western corner of the Great Hall there was a oven which I have omitted.
- The cistern next to the tower is an embellishment. This was actually a small guard house and the “cistern-overflow” was an arrow loop. I wanted to put a cistern in the castle somewhere.
- The blacksmith’s workshop is also an embellishment.
