Cold, wet and windy. Not my ideal sea-side holiday house. The first thing was to create the height field to use as the landscape. I'm sure there are better ways to create a landscape, but this is my first image and after many hours of experimenting, I left it as is. Next step was to construct the castle itself.
All bricks are superellipsoids with the exception of the front gate arch and corner towers.
For the front arch I used cylinders and for the corner towers, a linear spline. At this stage I discovered how to use the povray language a little better and hence, the building to the front left took much less time to construct using while loops. I attempted to use a 'difference' to cut the windows out, however, this increased the rendering times by an unacceptable amount of time, so I just removed some bricks. Originally, the bricks in the castle presented nice little uniform patterns from a distance. To remove this effect, I rotated the original brick around the three different axis to give the walls a slightly more random look and remove the patterns.