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In France, the terms château or manoir are often used synonymously to describe a French manor house; maison-forte is the appellation for a strongly fortified house, which may include two sets of enclosing walls, drawbridges, and a ground-floor hall or salle basse that was used to receive peasants and commoners.
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
Ince Castle. Killigarth Manor. Lanhydrock House. Lanteglos Country House Hotel (formerly Lanteglos by Camelford rectory) Lawrence House. Manor of Alverton. Mount Edgcumbe House. Pencarrow. Pengersick Castle.
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were ...
Feudalism. v. t. e. Conjectural map of a feudal manor. The mustard-coloured areas are part of the demesne, the hatched areas part of the glebe. The manor house, residence of the lord and location of the manorial court, can be seen in the mid-southern part of the manor. A demesne (/ dɪˈmeɪn, - ˈmiːn / di-MAYN, -MEEN) or domain[1] was all ...
Designated. 27 February 1950 [1] Reference no. 1384672. Location of Saltford Manor in Somerset. The Saltford Manor is a stone house in Saltford, Somerset, near Bath, that is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied private house in England, [2][3][4] and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. [1]
Official name. Haigh Hall. Designated. 19 November 1951. Reference no. 1228292. Haigh Hall is a historic country house in Haigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1827 and 1840 for James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres, it replaced an ancient manor house and was a Lindsay family home until 1947, when it was sold to Wigan Corporation.
In medieval times the manor was the nucleus of English rural life. It was an administrative unit of an extensive area of land. The whole of it was owned originally by the lord of the manor. He lived in the big house called the manor house. Attached to it were many acres of grassland and woodlands called the park.