Meaning of laithe house | Babel Free

Definitions

A dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“The laithe house incorporates a barn as well as a byre, which the other house-barns do not.”

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