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Longhouse
Type of house / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the communal dwelling. For longhouses as a place to urinate and defecate, see Outhouse. For the religious movement, see Longhouse Religion.
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Many were built from timber and often represent the earliest form of permanent structure in many cultures. Types include the Neolithic long house of Europe, the Norman Medieval Longhouses that evolved in Western Britain (Tŷ Hir) and Northern France (Longère), and the various types of longhouse built by different cultures among the indigenous peoples of the Americas.