Emiliano Pantoja Mar 1, 2012:

Manor with a lot of pomp and circumstance....

Helen Hagon (asker) Mar 1, 2012:

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. Unfortunately the rest of the text doesn't really give any clues. A photo of the house shows a fairly plain rectangular building with three rows of casement windows, which is very different to the maison carrée in Nîmes. I think, for the purposes of this translation I will use something along the lines of 'maison carrée, a rectangular manor house'.

Helen Shiner Feb 26, 2012:

Context In order to help you properly here, you really do need to provide at least one sentence in which the term appears, preferably the surrounding paragraph.

Just Opera Feb 26, 2012:

IMO refers to fortified aspect of a manor house i.e.

carrée = (Argot) (Militaire) Chambre, logement.
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/carrée

wikipedia (form entry on manor house)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_house

"Although not typically built with strong fortifications as castles were, many manor-houses were partly fortified."

Lucy Hayward Feb 26, 2012:

Does it look Palladian? Does the context suggest Palladian? Most of google images for maison carée look a bit like this. Something to consider, anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladian_architecture

The only other square houses I can think of are Georgian houses in the UK (clearly not all that much help).

cc in nyc Feb 26, 2012:

"the style of a manor house" Maybe "neoclassical"? But this is in no way a translation. :-|

Lara Barnett Feb 25, 2012:

context Is there any more context which describes the shape or style of this manor house more accurately?