Stowey Castle (also known as Nether Stowey Castle) was a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, built in the 11th century, in the village of Nether Stowey on the Quantock Hills in Somerset, England.

The Castle is sited on a small isolated knoll of Leighland Slates of the Devonian series, about high. It consisted of a square keep, (which may have been stone, or a wooden superstructure on stone foundations) and its defences, and an outer and an inner bailey. The mount is above the wide ditch which itself is deep. The motte has a flat top with two large and two small mounds as the edge which may be sites of towers. Central area occupied by approximately square foundations by with internal divisions.

The blue lias rubble walling is the only visible structural remains of the castle which stand on a conical earthwork with a ditch approximately in circumference.

The castle was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck. Some of the stone was used in the building of Stowey Court in the village.

Image:Stoweycastle.jpg|The motteImage:Stoweycastleditch.jpg|Surrounding ditch

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