Editing Hall (section)

==History==
In warmer climates, the houses of the wealthy were often built around a [[courtyard]], but in northern areas manors were built around a [[great hall]]. The hall was home to the hearth and was where all the residents of the house would eat, work, and sleep. One common example of this form is the [[longhouse]]. Only particularly messy tasks would be done in separate rooms on the periphery of the hall.<ref name="Flanders2015">{{cite book|author=Judith Flanders|title=The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes|date=8 September 2015 |publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-4668-7548-7}}</ref> Still today the term ''hall'' is often used to designate a [[country house]] such as a [[hall house]], or specifically a [[Wealden hall house]], and [[manor house]]s.

In later [[medieval]] Europe, the main room of a [[castle]] or [[manor house]] was the [[great hall]]. In a medieval building, the hall was where the fire was kept. As heating technology improved and a desire for privacy grew, tasks moved from the hall to other rooms. First, the master of the house withdrew to private bedrooms and eating areas. Over time servants and children also moved to their own areas, while work projects were also given their own chambers leaving the hall for special functions. With time, its functions as [[dormitory]], [[kitchen]], [[parlour]], and so on were divided into separate rooms or, in the case of the kitchen, a separate building.<ref name="Flanders2015" />

Until the early modern era that majority of the population lived in houses with a single room. In the 17th century, even lower classes began to have a second room, with the main chamber being the hall and the secondary room the parlor. The [[hall and parlor house]] was found in England and was a fundamental, historical floor plan in parts of the United States from 1620 to 1860.<ref>Foster, Gerald L.. ''American houses: a field guide to the architecture of the home''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 90.  {{ISBN|0618387994}}</ref>

In Europe, as the wealthy embraced multiple rooms initially the common form was the [[enfilade (architecture)|enfilade]], with rooms directly connecting to each other. In 1597 [[John Thorpe]] is the first recorded architect to replace multiple connected rooms with rooms along a corridor each accessed by a separate door.<ref name="Flanders2015" />