Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An bar ginin gidan ga Baldwin FitzGilbert wanda aka nada shi castellan, a tsakanin sauran girmamawa. An gina rami mai zurfi da katangar ciki tsakanin bangon arewa maso yamma da arewa maso gabas na birni, wanda ya zama kusan murabba'i mai kusurwa tare da gefuna kusan. "Littafin Domesday" na 1086 ya ba da rahoton cewa gidaje 48 sun lalace a Exeter tun lokacin da Sarki ya zo Ingila - wannan masana tarihi sun fassara cewa wannan gidaje da yawa suna kan shafin da aka share don gidan. An gina babban ƙofar dutse, wanda har yanzu ya tsira, a cikin bankin a gefen kudu na shinge. Yana da bayyanannun abubuwa na gine-ginen Anglo-Saxon
, kamar dogon-da-gajere quoins da tagogi masu kusurwa biyu, suna ba da shawarar cewa masanan Ingila ne suka gina shi da wuri bisa umarnin Norman. A wannan matakin farko mai yiwuwa an shawo kan katangar ta hanyar katanga, kodayake ba da daɗewa ba aka gina hasumiyoyin kusurwa biyu inda bankin ya haɗu da ganuwar birni, wanda yammacin (wanda aka sani da "Hasumiyar Athelstan") har yanzu yana nan.