All 3 Uses of
manor
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The manor-house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited.†
Chpt 8 *
- They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.†
Chpt 8
- About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
a large house of a wealthy person
or historically:
the main house of a lord and the land around it that was worked by tenant farmers
or historically:
the main house of a lord and the land around it that was worked by tenant farmers