courtyard_house

Chysauster for those of you who don't know, is about a mile or two along a road off Badger's Cross. The basic house plan within the settlement which dates from about the first four centuries AD, is an open courtyard with a round living-room opposite the entrance with a long narrow room along one...

Chysauster was a Romano-British settlement, primarily of a farming people who often kept livestock within their homes or in adjoining rooms.