Ludlow Castle is an extensive stone keep and bailey fortress, the entire castle surviving intact. The outer bailey curtain wall is well preserved and retains its battlements, an altered gatehouse, a square Norman flanking tower and the U-shaped Mortimer's Tower. In the large outer bailey are lodgings, a prison, stables and the Chapel of St Peter all backing onto the curtain wall. In the north-west corner is the inner bailey, with its steep rock-cut ditch and surrounding curtain wall flanked by four open backed square towers. The original Norman gatehouse has been blocked and raised to become a keep, flanking a plain arched gateway, which leads to a classic range of buildings and an unusual circular Norman chapel. 4 miles south-west is Aston Castle and 7 miles south is Ashton Castle.