laithe-house

plural laithe-houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of laithe house.

   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.

   1981, M. L. Faull, S. A. Moorhouse, West Yorkshire : an Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500, page 804

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   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.

   1963, Idris Llewelyn Foster, Leslie Alcock, Culture and environment: essays in honour of Sir Cyril Fox, page 430

   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.

   1991, Stephen Friar, The Batsford Companion to Local History, page 212