Manor-houses meaning
Plural form of manor house.
noun
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The rebellion spread like lightning, principally in the central or purely Magyar provinces, where hundreds of manor-houses and castles were burnt and thousands of the gentry done to death by impalement, crucifixion and other unspeakable methods.
In the midlands and south fine castles and manor houses of the 16th and 17th centuries are fairly numerous, and there are a few remains of previous date.
were rather splendid manor-houses, with some slight external protection of moat and gate- A h house, than old-fashioned castles.
Today the village has around 380 houses ranging from listed manor houses and quaint cottages, to modern town houses and octagonal architect-designed dwellings.
grange buildings were like those of other manor houses.