laithe-house

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English

Noun

laithe-house (plural laithe-houses)

  1. 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.