open hall

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 259 words | Copyright

open hall. Main living-room of a medieval house, open to the roof, usually with an open hearth or chimney-stack. An open-hall house contained such a hall, and was formerly called a hall-house.

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