Great House may refer to:
* a
great house, a large residence and its associated household, especially in the context of the Victorian and Edwardian era
Buildings
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Great House (St. Augustine, Maryland), U.S.
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Great House (Cape Ann) Great House in Cape Ann was a seventeenth century structure built by colonists in present-day Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was later disassembled and moved to Salem, Massachusetts, to be the Governor's house.
Origins
When Thomas Gardner came wit ...
, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Great House, Colyton
Great House on South Street in the town of Colyton, Devon, is the remnant of an historic Elizabethan mansion house built by the Yonge family, originally prominent wool merchants in the town, later Yonge baronets. It is a grade II* listed buildin ...
, Devon, England
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Great House, Laugharne
The Great House in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, is a Grade II*–listed early eighteenth century gentry residence in the Queen Anne style and is one of many buildings of note in the medieval
In the history of Europe, the Mid ...
, Carmarthenshire, Wales
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Great House, Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Great House, Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Great House at Sonning
The Great House at Sonning (formerly the White Hart public house) is a hotel and restaurant with a riverside garden on the River Thames near Sonning Bridge at Sonning, Berkshire, England. It is possible for patrons to moor along the towpath r ...
, Berkshire, England
* Great House, Bristol, England, at the site of the later
Bristol Beacon
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Great house (pueblo)
A great house is a large, multi-storied Ancestral Puebloan structure; they were built between 850 and 1150. Whereas the term "great house" typically refers to structures in Chaco Canyon, they are also found in more northerly locations in the San J ...
, a type of structure found in New Mexico, U.S.
Arts and entertainment
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''The Great House'' (film), a 1975 Spanish drama
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''Great House'' (novel), by Nicole Krauss, 2010
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''The Great House'' (novel), by Cynthia Harnett, 1949
* Great Houses,
in the ''Dune'' universe
* Great Houses, in the ''
BattleTech'' franchise
* Great Houses,
in ''A Song of Ice and Fire''
* Great Houses of
Gallifrey
Gallifrey () is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It is the original home world of the Time Lords, the civilisation to which the protagonist, The Doct ...
in ''Doctor Who''.
* Great Houses of
Morrowind in The ''Elder Scrolls'' franchise.
Other uses
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Seven Great Houses of Iran
The Seven Great Houses of Iran, also known as the seven Parthian clans, were seven feudal aristocracies of Parthian origin, who were allied with the Sasanian court. The Parthian clans all claimed ancestry from Achaemenid Persians.
The seven Great ...
, seven feudal aristocracies
* a translation of the title
Pharaoh
Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: ''pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the an ...
See also
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English country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
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Estate houses in Scotland
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Manor house
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 held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
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Mansion
A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word ''mansio'' "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb ''manere'' "to dwell". The English word '' manse'' originally defined a property l ...
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