 Post-war, the entire estate was sold onwards as farm land, with the castle left as a decaying ruin, the status in which it remains today.Ashraf Barakat bought the castle in 1998, and tried to revive the sport of polo in Wales.After failing in a planning permission application to construct nine residential flats within the building, following the discovery of roosting Greater and Lesser horseshoe bats on the premises, he applied to demolish it to build housing; planning permission was refused.