Members of the nobility owned the houses on their manors.
The landed gentry was sometimes regarded as of the nobility, and sometimes not, but they owned land and the houses on it.
There were a lot of small land holders who owned their own land, they are referred to as yeomen.
In towns and cities, a lot of the housing was owned by landlords, who are probably best described as middle class.
The Church owned a lot of land and the houses on it.
Serfs and tenants, of course, did not own their houses.
It was considered to be owned by the noble who was in charge of the area.
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There was no foreign owned plantations in the middle ages. The "plantation" system developed in the south and Caribbean in the late 1700's and early 1800's. This is several hundred years after the middle ages. Peasants worked on the land owned by the king. In Europe in the middle ages there was a patch work of holdings by nobles who gained land from marriages and the king as a reward for service. There wasn't "foreign owned" lands.
The predominant staircase design in the Middle Ages was the spiral design for stairs. Spiral stairs were used from the medieval ages and are still used in many modern houses.
Poor people far outnumbered middle class in the Middle Ages. The serfs and other peasants were the great majority of the population, and the Middle Class was very small. So there were more cottages for poor people than middle class houses.
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During the Middle Ages, only monasteries and manor houses baked large quantities of leavened products
Because religion was so important during the Middle Ages, most people owned Bibles.
It was cold and damp and dark
Yes. They do. They were often small cottages or long houses
It was considered to be owned by the noble who was in charge of the area.
Fortified dwellings of the Middle Ages were castles and fortified manor houses. Not all dwellings were castles, however.
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There was no foreign owned plantations in the middle ages. The "plantation" system developed in the south and Caribbean in the late 1700's and early 1800's. This is several hundred years after the middle ages. Peasants worked on the land owned by the king. In Europe in the middle ages there was a patch work of holdings by nobles who gained land from marriages and the king as a reward for service. There wasn't "foreign owned" lands.