A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. 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.
Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire is the largest great house in the United Kingdom.
Longleat House in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquesses of Bath
Rose Hall, a great house in Jamaica
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets. The term is today loosely applied to various English country houses, mostly at the smaller end of the spectrum, sometimes dating from the Late Middle Ages, which currently or formerly house the landed gentry.
The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire (previously Berkshire), considered to be a "textbook" example of the English medieval manor house
Markenfield Hall in North Yorkshire, a 14th-century manor house with moat and gatehouse
Ightham Mote, a 14th-century moated manor house in Kent, England
Leeds Manor House Blue Plaque, Scarborough Hotel
