What special features did a medieval house have?

Answer 1

1st Answer:

None. They were wattle and daub with a door, a fireplace, a dirt floor and a place to sleep.

2nd Answer:

Most medieval houses did not have chimneys, and so they needed to have holes for the smoke to escape when they built fires on their hearths. This could be done by having a hole in the roof, possibly with a louver, which would keep rain from coming in through the hole in the roof, or having holes in the walls below the peak of the roof. The fire was built on a hearth, typically in the middle of a dirt floor. In the house of a wealthy person, the fire could be on a brazier, placed on a floor made of stone, wood, or tile. If the house had stone walls, the hearth could be against the wall, and a smoke canopy could conduct the smoke through a hole in the wall. Chimneys were invented in the 12th century, and were for a long time only for wealthy people.

Many medieval houses did not have kitchens, and the cooking was done outside in a separate building. People who lived in towns and cities often bought prepared food.

They nearly never had Plumbing. If a town house had a kitchen, there could have been drains for gray water to go into the gutter of the street.

Many farm cottages had attached sheds for animals to stay in.

At the other end of the economic spectrum, wealthy people sometimes had fortified manor houses, complete with many of the defensive features of castles, including moats and so forth.