What buildings would be in a medieval manor?

Answer 1

It varied from a few to many.

One thing medieval manor houses had was a great hall, which was very big and was likely to be partitioned into smaller cubicles. The reason for this was that there was no really good way to heat smaller rooms because most medieval manor houses did not have chimneys until after the 12th century, when they were introduced. Great halls were usually heated by open fires in the middles of the rooms, with the smoke rising to the roof and vented from there through openings in the walls or the roof itself. But the effect of the great hall on the architecture was to limit the number of smaller rooms.

Answer 2

A manor had a manor house, which was the residence of the lord of the manor and his family. A lord often had a number of manors, so the manor house was not necessarily his primary residence. Manor houses came in two types, fortified and unfortified. A fortified manor looked quite a lot like a castle. An unfortified manor could be simply a big house or could be a fine mansion.

The manor also had a number of homes, usually cottages, of the families who worked the land.

In some parts of Europe, longhouses were used instead of cottages, and these could house multiple families, usually together at one end of the building, with animals, usually at the other, but sometimes in sheds on the sides. These buildings also stored hay, grain, and equipment and were were very large.

Manors had work and storage buildings, barns, sheds, coops, stables, and so on.

Many manors had mills, smithies, and other specialized shops.

Cooking was usually not done inside, if it could be avoided, so manors sometimes had separate kitchen buildings. Sometimes manors had separate ovens for baking bread; in some places there was a manorial baker, and in others serfs could rent the oven for their own use.

The peasants on a manor usually lived with their cottages grouped into a hamlet or village. If it was a village, there was a local church, because the presence of the church was what distinguished the one from the other.

Sometimes there were houses that were nicer than ordinary cottages, but not nearly as grand as the manor house. A parsonage would be one example of such a structure.

Some manors had special functions. There were manors, for example, where a number of the serfs were miners, or where a large part of the work had to do with fishing or some other occupation. Buildings relating to these could be on such a manor.

Answer 3

Most houses were peasant cottages, and most of these had one room, with possibly a loft.

Large houses could be gigantic, and have so many rooms you would not want to count them.

Answer 4

Some medieval homes had one room, others had more than one room.