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Two towers joined by an embattled wall with a gateway between them.
Also known as: Castle triple-towered
In blazon a castle is specifically two towers linked by a battlemented curtain wall, usually with a gate or portcullis between. A single tower is a tower, not a castle.
Two towers joined by an embattled curtain wall, usually pierced by a gateway and often closed with a portcullis.
Borne famously in the arms of Castile as a canting charge on the kingdom's name, and widely in civic arms of fortified towns.
Two masonry towers with battlemented tops joined by a straight wall, with the curve of an arched gateway in the wall between them.
A tower is one structure; a castle is two towers joined by a wall. Blazon holds the distinction and ordinary usage does not.