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The third Sir Godfrey Webster began looking for buyers for the castle in 1815, and in 1829 he finally managed to sell it and of the surrounding land to John ' Mad Jack ' Fuller for £ 3, 000 (£ as of 2008 ).

Fuller repaired one of the towers, added new gates to the site, and removed a cottage which had been built within the castle in the 18th century ; he is thought to have bought the castle to prevent the Webster family from dismantling it and reusing its materials.

George Cubitt, later Baron Ashcombe, purchased the castle and its from Fuller's grandson in 1849, for over £ 5, 000 (£ as of 2008 ).

Cubitt continued the renovations that Fuller started.

He commissioned the first detailed survey of Bodiam Castle in 1864, and undertook repairs to the tower at the southwest corner of the site, which had almost entirely collapsed.

Because there was then a fashion for ruins covered in ivy, the vegetation was not removed despite its detrimental effect on the masonry, and the trees which had taken root in the courtyard were left.