square enclosure its embattled curtain enlivened

  Military occupation of one kind or another continued until the Second World War.As originally conceived, the castle comprised an oblong blockhouse, set in the middle of a curious screen wall terminating at each end in a stair turret.  This building provided accommodation for the garrison, defense being concentrated upon the low, pointed bastion facing the Medway.Pointed bastions were devised as a defense against artillery in Renaissance Italy.  Sir Richard Lee built several along his new ramparts at Berwick, but the Upnor bastion does not have the characteristic "arrowhead" plan resulting from a narrow collar.  Its riverside setting made that unnecessary.  However, since only one side of the bastion faces upriver, there were insufficient gun emplacements to fire effectively on an approaching fleet-this was the problem in 1667.

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  The latter date is favored, though Sir John may just have added the gatehouse.  The castle is a simple, square enclosure its embattled curtain enlivened by Tudor windows, chimneys and gables.  Square turrets project at each end of the entrance front and between them is a handsome, oblong gatehouse.  This dominates the rest and is no doubt an echo of the old keep-gatehouse theme.  The gateway, surmounted by carved tracery and a row of machicolations, is placed off-center so that there is a large room on one side of the gate passage but just a tiny chamber on the other.Two original wooden portcullises, one still in working order, hang in the gate passage; the drawbridge is a restoration.  Timber-framed ranges occupy three sides of the tiny courtyard, early Tudor in origin but heavily restored by Viscount Astor.