Tower house
Type of stone structure, built for defensive and habitation purposes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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