The first building on the site was an open hall house erected before 1350.

Middle Earth includes hall houses with 45 - 75 residents.

The residence hall houses both male and female sophomore students.

The open hearth found in a hall house created heat and smoke.

The Priory is a fine example of a medieval hall house.

These developed from the hall house and consist of a long building that faces the road, with the house at one end.

In England it had been a more modest development from the medieval hall house.

At this stage, we have the hall house in which the central room is the great hall.

It originated as a medieval hall house in the later part of the 15th century.

The castle originally comprised the 12th- or 13th-century hall house, which was extended in the 15th century.