Manor house

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For Manor House, an area of London, see Manor House, London

For Manor House, the PBS reality TV series, see The Edwardian Country House.

A manor house or fortified manor-house is a country house, which has historically formed the centre of a manor (see Manorialism). The term is primarily applied to relatively small country houses which belonged to gentry families, rather than to grand stately homes, particularly as a technical term for minor late medieval castles more intended for show than for defence.

In modern usage, the term manor or manor house is often used to mean simply a small or medium-sized country house, with no reference to age or to the historical sense of the term.

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