This earthwork fortification occupies a strategic position on a south-facing upper slope overlooking a river valley, with a stream flowing northwest to southeast approximately 50 metres below the site. The castle’s elevated placement would have provided its medieval occupants with commanding views across the surrounding countryside, a crucial advantage for both defence and territorial control.

The motte itself consists of a roughly circular raised platform measuring 22.5 metres in diameter, defined by an imposing earthen scarped edge that rises 3.6 metres above the surrounding landscape. A defensive fosse, or dry moat, encircles much of the structure from north to southeast, with a base width of 5.8 metres and depth of 1.6 metres. Interestingly, a kink in the modern field boundary west of the site suggests the fosse once continued from southwest to north, completing the defensive circuit before later agricultural activities altered the landscape.

Today, the platform shows clear signs of its long history; quarrying has damaged sections of the edge from southwest to west-southwest and from west to west-northwest, likely the result of stone or earth removal over the centuries. The interior remains level and dry, though vegetation has reclaimed the margins, gradually softening the once sharp military edges of this Norman stronghold. Despite these changes, the motte remains an impressive example of medieval military architecture, its earthworks still clearly visible after nearly nine centuries.