The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect...
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A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages...
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Tower House 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...
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The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The original building was...
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Welsh tower houses were fortified stone houses that were built between the early 14th and 15th centuries. They are related to tower houses, which occur...
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Tower houses (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 Random House Tower, also known as the Park Imperial Apartments, is a 52-story, 684 ft (208 m) mixed-use tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City...
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Tower House, California was a mining town in Shasta County. The mining District of Tower House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on...
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and Ireland Welsh Tower houses Tower houses in the Balkans Tower House may also refer to: The tower of a tower castle Tower House (film), 1962 Indian...
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Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North...
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house Peel tower or Pele tower: fortified tower houses in England and Scotland used as keeps or houses Vainakh tower: a tower house found in Chechenya and...
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path leads up to the gatehouse. The various buildings within the castle include the 14th-century tower house as well as the 16th-century palace. Dunnottar...
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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...
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List of castles in Ireland (redirect from List of castles in the Republic of Ireland)
restoration[when?] Tallaght Castle, Tower House, incorporated into the buildings of St. Mary's Priory in Tallaght village Templeogue House NIAH survey Thorncastle...
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Castles in Scotland (section Tower houses)
castles built in the borders were in the form of tower houses, smaller pele towers or simpler bastle houses. From the fifteenth century there was a phase...
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Kingdom Centre (section Similar towers)
around the world, including the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Eiffel Tower. From base to top, the tower house 13 floors...
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Palace of Westminster (redirect from Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom)
Chancellor's Tower respectively, after the presiding officers of the two Houses at the time of the palace's reconstruction—the Speaker of the House of Commons...
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Tower House is a 1962 Indian Hindi language thriller film produced by J.C. Malhotra and directed by Nisar Ahmad Ansari. Ajit as Suresh Kumar Shakila as...
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Tower houses (singular: Albanian: kullë; Bosnian: odžak Bulgarian: кули, kuli; Serbian: кула, Romanian: culă) developed and were built since the Middle...
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Craigmillar Castle (category Historic house museums in Edinburgh)
the tower house which now forms the core of the castle. This was in place by 1425, when a charter was sealed at Craigmillar by Sir John Preston. The courtyard...
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Tower is a 297.3 m (975 ft) skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction began in August 2002 and the...
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regulations. The tower's main sources of income are tourism and antenna leasing. FootTown, a four-story building directly under the tower, houses museums,...
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extended. The White Tower was the castle's strongest point militarily, provided accommodation for the king and his representatives, and housed a chapel...
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Castles in Great Britain and Ireland (redirect from Artillery tower)
after the death of Alexander III the trend in Scotland moved away from the construction of larger castles towards the use of smaller tower houses. The tower...
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God's House Tower is a late 13th century gatehouse into the old town of Southampton, England. It stands at the south-east corner of the town walls and...
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Barbican Estate (redirect from Shakespeare Tower)
of a new apartment tower—named The Heron—which also provides additional facilities for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The main fort of Roman...
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The RSA Battle House Tower is located in Mobile, Alabama and is Alabama's tallest building. The building is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama...
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The Tower House, formerly known as The Cottage or Lubenham Cottage is a Grade II listed Georgian house in Lubenham, Leicestershire, England. It is situated...
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Ballynahow Castle (section The tower house)
a tower house and a National Monument in County Tipperary, Ireland. Ballynahow Castle is located 4.6 km (2.9 mi) west-northwest of Thurles, on the west...
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the height of the tower. For example, the height of a clock tower improves the visibility of the clock, and the height of a tower in a fortified building...
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