Building
Hall
The hall was the main public room of a substantial house, open to the roof and heated by a central hearth. Twelfth-century halls were often aisled, with arcades of massive timber posts or stone pillars dividing the space like a church nave, as in the bishop's palace at Hereford, tree-ring dated to 1179, and Burmington Manor, Warwickshire, dated to 1195. Private chambers were often in a separate block.
Caveats (confidence: high)
Survivals are few and mostly high-status; lesser halls are known from excavation.
Sources: heritagecalling.com · historicengland.org.uk
Built from
- Hall