the property passed to the radcliffes on the marriage of dorothy bigot into that family, before settling in 1625 on lord sheffield of butterwick, later to be titled earl of mulgrave by charles i. there is evidence that the initial construction by the fossards was updated and altered by subsequent residents. the castle was garrisoned by royalists during the english civil war. subsequently, it was dismantled by parliamentary order in 1647; the lie of bricks from the destruction suggest that gunpowder might have been employed for this purpose.