hall-house Obs. exc. local.
† 1. A house or edifice that is a hall. Obs.
| 1467 Ord. Worcester xli. in Eng. Gilds 393 Citezen or straunger that hyreth eny chambour in that seide halle house [the Guild-hall]. |
2. The principal living-room in a farm-house.
| 1564 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 80 The testament was maid in his haull house, upon a holloday. 1575–6 Ibid. 268 The said Thomas was soore sike, lyinge in his hall house. 1599 Acc.-Bk. in Antiquary XXXII. 242 In the hawle house. |
3. The farm-house, as distinguished from the cottages on the farm.
| 1603 Owen Pembrokesh. (1891) 191 And then was the old tenant at Mydsomer to remove out of the hall house. |
4. (Sc. ha' house) A manor-house; = hall1 3.
| 1702 Lond. Gaz. No. 3826/4 At Latimers in Bucks..is a fair large Hall-house fit for a Person of Quality. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 517 ¶2 Captain Sentry, my master's nephew, has taken possession of the hall-house, and the whole estate. 1814 Scott Wav. x, Saying ‘there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Gellatley’. |