Great Hall - The building in the inner ward that housed the main meeting and dining area for the castle's residence; throne room
Groined - Roof with sharp edges at intersection of cross-vaults.
Pantry - associated with the Buttery in the Great Hall complex. I'm not sure what its function was as differentiated from the former. Pantry actually means 'bread room' (pan French equals bread).
The earliest windows are those which constituted the clerestory windows of the Great Hall of Columns at Karnak; they were filled with vertical slabs of masonry pierced with narrow slits. Other Egyptian temples were lighted in the same way.
The principal reception room of a house-often known as the "great hall"-would have been completely communal regardless of hierarchy within the household.
SolarPrivate upper chamber in a medieval house, accessible from the high or dais end of the great hall.
"The castle was a vast stone and timber building that evolved from one large room, the great hall. Until the introduction of the fireplace in the fourteenth century, fires were made on the stone floor with an open window providing ventilation.
long, narrow passage or room, often overlooking a great hall or garden
Garderobe
latrine; privy, normally set over a stone shaft or drain ...
Solar: originally a room above ground level, but commonly applied to the great chamber or a private sitting room off the great hall
Springald: war engine of the catapult type, employing tension ...
or more storeys projecting from the face of a building. Canted with a straight front and angled sides. Bow window curved. Oriel rests on corbels or brackets and starts above ground level; also the bay window at the dais end of a medieval great hall.
Asymmetrical floor plans
Informal interior free-flowing plans, often with large rooms and porches arranged around an open great hall (significantly less formal than Victorian dwellings)
Fireplaces and grand staircases ...
Using this system, a wide space can be roofed, and the ceiling becomes an open, dominant feature of a building. Usually found in church naves and great halls, some of the best examples are found in East Anglia, like Woolpit.
A typical building of the period is Wollaton Hall (1588), Nottinghamshire, built by Robert Smythson; it was the first English house to abandon the traditional central courtyard and to place in its stead a high-ceilinged great hall lighted by gallery ...
to the development of this phase of art were not notable; the most conspicuous is the Hallenbau scheme which consists in raising one or more aisles on either side of the nave to an equal height therewith, or rather in building a great hall roofed ...
 See also: Hall, House, Timber, Tower, Church
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