The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating.
The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
Sir Peter d'Evercy, 1307) or a manor house, with an external octagon turret containing a staircase.
A small building, surrounded by a moat, is said to occupy the site of a manor house given to Lord Monteagle for bringing about the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.
Banwell Court, near the church, contains some remains of a manor house, built by Bishop Beckington.
Down a lane leading off from the Chew Stoke road is the Manor House, rebuilt in 1656 on the site of an earlier residence.
For lack of space the illustrations of the lovely garden at Manor House, Glen Cove, and the picturesque pool at Cedarhurst must alone represent this section.
There was usually a manor house, which varied in size from an actual castle to a building of a character scarcely distinguishable from the primitive houses of the villagers.
Illustration: Seal, with Representation of a Manor House.
On June 12th, the same day that the rendezvous was held on Blackheath, a great body of peasants under Wrawe attacked and pillaged a manor house belonging to Richard Lyons, an unpopular minister of the last days of Edward III.
On this spot stood the first old Manor House, until Lord Sandys alienated the manor to Henry VIII.
This excellent “Home” is at Manor House, near Durham Place, Chelsea.
A manor house, however, was only less bare and inconvenient than a castle.
The great hall of a manor house contained a long dining table, with benches used at meals, and a few stools.
The "Manor House" was not from the first, is not now, merely the great philanthropist's charming country house.
They could even make the habitants work without pay at building a manor house; a few of the massive stone mansions still fairly numerous in the Province of Quebec were constructed by such labour.
Just across the bay stood another manor house; of stone, too, in this case not concealed by a covering of wood.
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