Type of stone structure, built for defensive and habitation purposes
This article is about stone structures in general. For the house designed by William Burges in London, see The Tower House. For the Grade II-listed building in Brighton, see Tower House, Brighton.
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The Tower of Hallbar in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.[1] Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages, especially in mountainous or limited access areas, to command and defend strategic points with reduced forces. At the same time, they were also used as an aristocrat's residence, around which a castle town was often constructed.
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TowerHouse School is an independent prep school for boys aged 4 to 13 . Founded in 1931, it is located in East Sheen, near Richmond Park, in the London...
Towerhouses (Irish: caisleán) appeared on the Islands of Ireland and Great Britain starting from the High Middle Ages. They were constructed in the wilder...
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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames...
gatehouse. The various buildings within the castle include the 14th-century towerhouse as well as the 16th-century palace. Dunnottar Castle is a scheduled monument...
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Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or towerhouses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North...
castles built in the borders were in the form of towerhouses, smaller pele towers or simpler bastle houses. From the fifteenth century there was a phase...
(English: tower) or "kullë e veçuar" (detached tower) refers to tall fortified buildings that performed various defensive functions. Detached towers served...
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of Ottoman towerhouses (singular: Albanian: kullë; Bosnian: odžak Bulgarian: кули, kuli; Serbian: кула, Romanian: culă, all meaning "tower", from Arabic...
fortified house Shaen Castle, fragment of towerhouse Strahane Castle, ruins of towerhouse Shrule Castle, castle ruins Tinnakill Castle, towerhouse Clonburren...
visited the tower. FootTown, a four-story building directly under the tower, houses museums, restaurants, and shops. Departing from there, guests can visit...
modern catch-all suffix for an old house on an estate, true manor or not. TowerHouses - Towerhouses - including Peel towers - were constructed in the wilder...
change in the direction of the wind. The Jewel Tower and the undercroft, cloisters, and chapter house of St Stephen's Chapel were the only other parts...
Ballynahow Castle is a towerhouse and a National Monument in County Tipperary, Ireland. Ballynahow Castle is located 4.6 km (2.9 mi) west-northwest of...
the construction of larger castles towards the use of smaller towerhouses. The towerhouse style would also be adopted in the north of England and Ireland...
time as a private house and town hall; the chancel was pulled down in 1852. Today it serves as the bell tower for the abbey. Abbey House was rebuilt c. 1540...
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