Keep, Tower

Keep, Tower
♦ Later 12th century with chamber above the hall in narrower, taller and probably less expensive and more defensive building, e.g. Hedingham, Guildford, Goodrich and Broughham. Portchester was transformed from one to the other.
(Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 412)

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