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The house is in red brick with dentilled eaves and a slate roof. There are three storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a reeded surround, a fanlight, and a hood on brackets. The windows in the lower two floors are cross casements with segmental heads, and the top floor contains horizontally-sliding sashes with flat heads. [26] II
The Yeoman's House, Bignor, Sussex, a three-bay Wealden hall house. The hall house is a type of vernacular house traditional in many parts of England, Wales, Ireland and lowland Scotland, as well as northern Europe, during the Middle Ages, centring on a hall. Usually timber-framed, some high status examples were built in stone.
A house and cottage with later alterations, in stone with stone-slate roofs. There are two storeys, two bays, a rear outshut, and extensions and outshuts at both ends. The doors have square-cut surrounds, the windows are mullioned, and in the rear extension are quoins. Inside there are timber framed partitions. [9] II: The Old Parsonage, Mottram
The smaller ground-floor hall or salle basse remained, but was for receiving guests of any social order. [8] It is very common to find these two halls superimposed, one on top of the other, in larger manor houses in Normandy and Brittany. Access from the ground-floor hall to the upper (great) hall was normally via an external staircase tower.
They were later superseded by medieval banquet halls. Examples that have been excavated include: Southwest of Lejre, Denmark. Remains of a Viking hall complex were uncovered in 1986–88 by Tom Christensen of the Roskilde Museum. [3] Wood from the foundation was radiocarbon-dated to circa 880. It was later found that this hall was built over an ...
Peasant homes in medieval England were centered around the hearth while some larger homes may have had separate areas for food processing like brewhouses and bakehouses, and storage areas like barns and granaries. There was almost always a fire burning, sometimes left covered at night, because it was easier than relighting the fire.
Le Goff suggests that the Anglo-Saxon period was defined by its use of wood, [2] providing evidence for the care and craftsmanship that the Anglo–Saxon invested into their wooden material culture, from cups to halls, and the concern for trees and timber in Anglo–Saxon place–names, literature and religion. [3] Michael Shapland suggests:
Ightham Mote (/ ˈ aɪ t əm ˈ m oʊ t /), at Ightham, is a medieval moated manor house in Kent, England. The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county". [1] Ightham Mote and its gardens are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public.