 In the north and west walls, at first-floor level, are five embrasures, with circular gunports, to these elevation also are stone corbels in groups of three, these supported a sectional projecting stone parapet.Outside the south gateway are the remains of stone footings.There are no longer any trace remains of the "steppes of stone" that were referred to in Gorse's "Antiquities" and Coker's "Dorset"; the steps connected the castle and the old church of St Andrew.