Hall

Later in the Middle Ages, the great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept.

In modern British houses, an entrance hall next to the front door remains an indispensable feature, even if it is essentially merely a corridor.

Today, the (entrance) hall of a house is the space next to the front door or vestibule leading to the rooms directly and/or indirectly.

Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, corridor (from Spanish corredor used in El Escorial and 100 years later in Castle Howard), or hallway.

As heating technology improved and a desire for privacy grew, tasks moved from the hall to other rooms.

The hall and parlor house was found in England and was a fundamental, historical floor plan in parts of the United States from 1620 to 1860.

Between these in age, Nassau Hall at Princeton University began as the single building of the then college.

A hall is also a building consisting largely of a principal room, that is rented out for meetings and social affairs.

The atrium, a name sometimes used in public buildings for the entrance hall, was the central courtyard of a Roman house.