Novomalyn Castle

The surviving plan of the complex shows a fortified enclosure shaped as a five-sided polygon, with towers at each corner connected by defensive walls. The site occupies a hill above the Svitenka river and was protected on three sides by water, with access originally provided through a gate reached by a bridge or drawbridge over a water-filled moat. The defensive circuit was built in masonry and formed the principal outline now visible as low walls and foundations.

Along the south‑east side of the enceinte lay the later palace, a rectangular two‑storey building set against the defensive wall. Its exterior walls were thick and pierced by rectangular window openings. Most upper ceilings have collapsed, while three ground-floor rooms still show surviving cross vaulting. Vaulted cellars extend beneath several levels of the main house, and a kitchen close to the palace carried a neo‑Gothic arcade as part of nineteenth‑century remodelling. These rooms survive in fragmentary condition, with sections of masonry and vaulting in situ.

The chapel represents an early nineteenth‑century neo‑Gothic intervention using the base of an earlier defensive tower as its socle. In plan the chapel presents a square outer form enclosing a circular interior volume and it projects beyond the line of the curtain wall. Each of the four exterior faces contains a single narrow pointed window, and high round corner turrets with linear rustication were added to the composition. One account describes a variant where five small turrets replaced a destroyed northern tower. The chapel interior was decorated with marble carving by T. O. Sosnovsky during the Sosnovski rebuilding; portions of the chapel walls and decorative work survive as ruinous fragments.

Early nineteenth‑century alterations made by the Sosnovskis left further traces on the site. A brick stable was adapted for habitation, two towers were physically connected to the house (one forming a round bedroom and another serving as a pantry), and an orangery and an English‑style garden were established at the hillside base. Today the complex remains as the outlines of its former plan, ruined wall fragments and the preserved chapel walls, with the former park reduced to a few old trees; plaster falls from standing masonry and the property is overgrown.