North Range

This range of buildings was completed by 1320 on a crescent shaped plan to replace earlier buildings on the same site.

The central hall was begun under the instruction of Geoffrey de Geneville and his son Peter, but the other buildings of the North Range were possibly added later by Roger Mortimer.

The Great Hall, the Solar Wing, Kitchens, Basement, the Grehamber Block, the Garderobe Tower and the Tudor Lodgings survive as a largely intact shell, even though the roof material has long since been dismantled.

The interiors were once richly furnished with beautiful tapestries, panelling and plaster work, and even now give some idea of how grand life must have been for the wealthy and powerful in the early fourteenth century.