laithe house
laithe house noun: a dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.
Noun
laithe house (plural laithe houses)
- A dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.
- The vernacular tradition in building was not completely dead, however, and in the West Riding of Yorkshire economic and social factors peculiar to the hills and dales of the eastern Pennines produced a new house-type, the laithe house.1990, Michael A. Reed, The Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914, →ISBN, page 313
- A laithe house differs from a longhouse in that there is no cross-passage, there is always separate access for humans and animals, and there is not necessarily any intercommunication between the parts of the building.2000, R. W. Brunskill, Houses and Cottages of Britain, →ISBN, page 98
Forms of laithe house
| plural | laithe houses |
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| alternative form | laithe-house |
Questions about laithe house
- What does laithe house mean?
- Laithe house means a dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.
- What part of speech is laithe house?
- Laithe house is a noun.
- What is the plural of laithe house?
- The plural of laithe house is laithe houses.
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