What were medieval maids quarters like?

Answer 1

The houses were wattle and daub. This means they were sticks woven together to make a wall and then covered with a coating of mud and straw. The roof was thatch. There usually was one door and no windows ( in some places windows were taxed). The floor was dirt and there was a fireplace. It was one room that everyone lived in. It was cold and wet in the winter, hot in summer. The lighting came from the fireplace and from tallow candles so it smelled of wood smoke and tallow.

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Peasant cottages had no fireplace. They were not invented until the 11th or 12th century and were only built for rich people. The middle of that dirt floor was a nice place for a fire, and the smoke went out a hole in the roof or under the roof peaks.

Answer 2

The living quarters of a maid during medieval times would have consisted of a bed, a wash basin and a chamber pot. The rooms were small and usually on lower levels so they had dirt floors. In some estates several maids could be in the same quarters.

Answer 3

Cottages were the homes of serfs and cottars. They were very simple and usually consisted of a single room, though there might have been a loft. They were built of stone or wattle and daub. The stone cottages were just made of field stone, and the spaces between were filled with daub. The wattle and daub ones were made by putting up a wooden frame, and filling the empty areas with wattle, which was woven reeds. Daub was mostly made of mud. The roofs were thatched by making bundles of reeds and tying them down to rafters. There were no fireplaces, because chimneys were invented only in the late middle ages, and were expensive. Central fires were built in the middle of the wood floors, and the smoke went out holes that were either under the roof peaks, or just in the middle of the roof, where they also let in rain and snow. In order to have such a fire, the floor had to be dirt. There were very few windows, and these had no glass. Windows might have had a cover of cloth, or might have had a shutter, and the doors were similarly fitted. Furniture was very simple and rude.

Answer 4

A servant usually lived by themselves in wooden, ramshackle houses, with their livestock living with them. A servant barely had enough to eat during his work and always had hard, tedious work every day.

Answer 5

They were very narrow and tall. They normally had only two floors. If someone needed more room they would simply have to build what they needed to be done.