Hemyock Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle in the village of Hemyock, Devon, England. It was built by Sir William Asthorpe after 1380 to a quadrangular design. It would have been visually impressive, but not particularly functional, with various intrinsic flaws. By the 16th century it had fallen into ruin and, following its use during the English Civil War in the mid-17th century, it was pulled down. In the 21st century the site is occupied by the fragments of the original castle; and Castle House, an 18th-century house built within the site, and restored as private home at the end of the 20th century.
The castle is located in the Culm valley in the Blackdown Hills, on the west side of the village of Hemyock.[1] The site belonged to the Hidon family in the 11th and 12th centuries, passing by marriage into the Dynham family in the 13th.[2] In the 13th century a building was constructed on the current site, protected by a spring-fed moat.[3]