What types of buildings were evident in medieval Europe and what were they used for?

Answer 1

• These were some of the buildings used in the Middle Ages:
• Manors had sheds and barns for storage, chicken coops, stables, and so on.
• Cottages were used by peasants for their homes. In some places long houses were used by multiple families, and in some places these long houses even housed the family of the owner of the farm.
• A manor had a manor house, the home of the lord of the manor. Some of these were fortified and looked like castles.
• A manor often had various other work buildings, including work shops for smiths, mills for grinding flour, mills for pumping water, and in some cases such things as buildings for making pottery, kilns and so on. There were also often communal ovens for people to bake with.
• Shops in the villages, including bakeries, butchers' shops, and so on.
• Churches for worship. Cities had cathedral churches.
• Manufacturing facilities for all sorts of goods, including weavers facilities, leather tanners, armorers,
• Castles, which were forts for defense. They could also be residences of important lords. Castles had their own buildings, such as the great hall or keep, the gate house, and so on.
• Palaces, which were especially fine manor houses where monarchs lived. Certain counts also had palaces, and were called counts palatine to indicate they had that right.
• Port facilities, such as warehouses for importers, and other ancillary support buildings for sailors.
• Inns and taverns for feeding and housing travelers
• Monasteries and abbeys for housing monks and nuns
• Various booths for everyone from people who sold prepared meals to toll collectors