Hedingham Castle The village of Castle Hedingham is centered by among the finest keeps. Confronted with ashlar masonry introduced completely from Barnack, it's almost perfectly maintained, missing only its battlements. The sloping plinth and pilaster buttresses are normal Norman motifs however the turrets rising at two opposite corners really are a distinctive feature. From outdoors, the keep is viewed to possess five stages. This means four tales within since the hall - as always within the bigger Norman keeps - is two times the peak from the other rooms and it is upper home windows are in gallery level. The very best floor, or photo voltaic, is simply underneath the parapet, so there's no blank space to safeguard a considerably pitched roof as with many Norman keeps. It's interesting to determine the way the home windows finish narrow slits at walk out to bigger and much more elaborate openings above, though being Norman, they're relatively small. Note the even rows of putlog holes utilized in the development. A forefront building preceded with a flight of steps guarded the means by. It has been permitted to decay right into a ruinous stump, however the very beginning entrance, with chevron ornament and portcullis groove, continues to be being used. The area within is bisected with a wide archway, which prepares us for that loftier, molded arch at hall level. These mix archways really are a unique feature. They assisted offer the wooden flooring without dividing the keep into more compact rooms like a mix wall might have done. A mural gallery runs completely round the keep in the 2nd floor from the hall. Frequent window recesses pierce it therefore the hall advantages of light at two levels. The current flooring and roof are modern, the older ones getting been consumed with a fire in 1918. . .