laithe-houseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• laithe-house

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laithe house ‎(複数形 laithe houses)

1. A dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.
   • 1990, Michael A. Reed, The Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914, ISBN 0389209333, page 313:

     The vernacular tradition in building was not completely dead, however, and in the West Riding of Yorkshire economic and social factors peculiar to the hills and dales of the eastern Pennines produced a new house-type, the laithe house.

   • 2000, R. W. Brunskill, Houses and Cottages of Britain, ISBN 0575071222, page 98:

     A laithe house differs from a longhouse in that there is no cross-passage, there is always separate access for humans and animals, and there is not necessarily any intercommunication between the parts of the building.

   • 2009, Allen Noble, Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions, ISBN 0857739026, page 30:

     The laithe house incorporates a barn as well as a byre, which the other house-barns do not.