A great house is a large house or mansion built and run with luxurious fittings and a substantial staff of indoor and outdoor servants, a term used mainly in a historical sense for properties from around the turn of the twentieth century, covering the late Victorian and Edwardian eras in the United Kingdom and the Gilded Age in the United States. The label describes not one fixed architectural style but a class of grand residential building defined as much by its scale and its household support as by any particular set of features, built by wealthy families in Britain and America during a period of considerable private fortune. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Sources
Great House (Wikipedia)
In Group: Nineteenth-Century Revival Styles of Britain and Ireland, Lead paragraphQuote, In Group: Nineteenth-Century Revival Styles of Britain and Ireland, Lead paragraph
The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom and the Gilded Age in the United States.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.