Devizes Castle in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, is a Victorian castellated building designed by the Bath architect Henry Goodridge and begun around 1840. It blends neo-Norman and Gothic Revival styles, with an asymmetrical design, turrets and towers. Its north tower incorporates a 17th-century brick windmill. Valentine Leach, a Devizes tradesman, acquired the lands and enlarged the castle.
It stands above an earlier motte-and-bailey castle, probably begun around 1080 by Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury. Royalists held the castle in 1643, and it was dismantled in 1648 under a Parliamentary order. Historic England says the original castle "survives well."
The current building is Grade I listed, privately owned and not open to the public.
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