Encovany, Renaissance château in Encovany, Czech Republic.

Encovany Castle is a four-winged building around a rectangular courtyard, entered from the south through a semicircular gate in a rusticated frame with a pedestrian door. Arcades line the ground floor of the east and north wings and the second floor of the north and west wings; the first-floor arcades were later walled up. The southwest corner preserves part of the Renaissance structure, including a stair annex with two late Gothic portals.

Encovany began as a Gothic fortress, first documented in 1508, on land held by the Chotěšov monastery from 1335. After 1543 Osvald Zejdlic of Šenfeld paid 8,750 kop of groschen and made it an independent estate; his family built the Renaissance château between 1563 and 1602. Confiscated after the Battle of White Mountain, it was bought in 1623 by Polyxena of Lobkowicz and attached to the Roudnice estate.

The arcades survive only on the ground floor of the east and north wings and on the second floor of the north and west wings; the first-floor arcades were later walled up. Fragments of Renaissance paintings remain in the tower and the southwest corner. The castle has been in private hands since 2014.

The castle is in private hands and was offered for sale from 2014 with an asking price of 11.9 million crowns, so access is not guaranteed. More than ten million crowns went into repairs after 2000, and the roof was fully reconstructed in 2013. The four wings enclose an oblong courtyard entered from the south through a semicircular gate.

The building reveals a layering of two construction periods, with Gothic structures preserved in the ground floors beneath the Renaissance additions. This overlap is visible in the structural drawings and architectural details.