great house

plural great houses

1. A large, luxurious house or mansion, with a sizeable indoor and outdoor staff; especially of properties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United Kingdom and United States.

   Near-synonyms: manor house, great hall

   1 more example

   And now I will speak of the Great House of Allington. After all, it was not very great; nor was it surrounded by much of that exquisite nobility of park appurtenance which graces the habitations of most of our old landed proprietors. But the house itself was very graceful.

   1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 1, in The Small House at Allington, London: Smith, Elder & Co.

   Synonyms: grand house, manor house, great hall

2. historicalA large complex with many rooms, built for worship by the Anasazi.