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English
Noun
laithe-house (plural laithe-houses)
- Alternative form of laithe house
1963, Idris Llewelyn Foster, Leslie Alcock, Culture and environment: essays in honour of Sir Cyril Fox, page 430:The laithe-house consists of house, barn and byre in that order, the barn and byre combined being known in the Halifax area as 'laithe' according to C.F. Stell, hence the term.
1981, M. L. Faull, S. A. Moorhouse, West Yorkshire : an Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500, page 804:J. T. Smith has argued that the laithe-house is probably alien to the longhouse tradition, and surviving longhouses in northern England are confined to the north-west.
1991, Stephen Friar, The Batsford Companion to Local History, page 212:Common in the north and west of Yorkshire, laithe-houses are farmsteads in which the combined byre and barn (the laithe) was constructed as an elongated extension of the dwelling, with which it shares the same roof.