manor house

the house of the lord of a manor.

Also called mansion.

Origin of manor house

First recorded in 1565–75

Did she hold a lease of the manor and manor-house of Hampton of the Knights Hospitallers?

Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 |Various
But I have some smart cousins up in the garden at the manor-house.

The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories |Carl Ewald
This table is considered as an heir loom in the family of Mr. Gill, and if removed at all, has been removed to the manor-house.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 472 |Various
From the manor-house to Scarborough there was a distance of twenty odd miles, and therefore we rode our horses.

In the Days of Drake |J. S. Fletcher

A contemporary writer, in 1648, described Mathews' plantation as a miniature village, at the center of which was the manor-house.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century |Annie Lash Jester

manor house

(esp formerly) the house of the lord of a manor