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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.
Tower houses are often called castles, and despite their characteristic compact footprint size, they are formidable habitations and there is no clear distinction between a castle and a tower house. In Scotland a classification system has been widely accepted based on ground plan, such as the L-plan castle style, one example being the original ...
The main concentration of tower houses is in southern Pembrokeshire, Wales.These were first published with detailed drawings in 1877–8 by Rev. E L Barnwell. [2] The Pembrokeshire examples have a coastal distribution; this is also true of the Monmouth and Glamorgan tower houses, as well as the demolished examples at Penhryn (in Caernarfonshire) and Ty Gwyn (in Abermo). [3]
Arnside Tower, a late-medieval pele tower in Cumbria Smailholm Tower near Kelso in Scotland Preston Tower, Northumberland. Peel towers (also spelt pele) [1] are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600. [2]
Smailholm Tower near Kelso in the Scottish Borders. The largest number of late medieval fortifications in Scotland built by nobles, about 800, [36] were of the tower house design. [37] [38] Smaller versions of tower houses in southern Scotland were known as peel towers, or pele houses. [39]
Ardee Castle also known as St. Leger's Castle, is a fortified medieval tower house in Ardee, County Louth in Ireland. Built in the 15th century, the castle was used as a prison during the 17th and 18th centuries and became Ardee's district courthouse until June 2006 when a specialised facility took its place.
After years of fantasizing about a move to Italy, Tom and Aileen White paid $21,000 for an ancient tower in a medieval village in a deal sealed with a handshake. This US couple bought a 400-year ...
The medieval house was owned by a branch of the Perrot family of Haverfordwest and later by the Meares and the Leaches. In the 18th century the Meares built a large mansion adjacent to the tower, but this was demolished in 1868. [8] Cadw suggests that the farm range which remains may have been the service wing to this larger house. [9]