Having discussed many of the ins and outs of privacy, class and status, and spatial elements of buildings, this chapter will now consider the spatial implications of these manorial sites. Starting in the earlier period, the space demonstrates that the impetus of the display of an elite authority moved from the person in the spaces themselves, to the seclusion and the importance of the materiality of the place to demonstrate status and the power afforded to them by being members of the sociallyrecognized elite class. Within this, we can recognize how aspects of accessibility and seclusion, the changeable natures of rooms, and the importance or invisibility of the slaves or servants compared to the materiality of the place, manifest elite status. Several sites from England and Normandy are examined here, such as at Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire, which provides an impressively excavated and documented site; Goltho, Lincolnshire, which provides spatial modelling despite it being virtually ‘prehistoric’ in its lack of records; Chateau de Creully, Normandy, giving an impressive Norman parallel; and Bishopstone, East Sussex, with its interestingly compact building sequence. Gender will be considered in light of all of these aspects of space and authority, with the patterns seen across the sites held up against Faccombe Netherton as the site most fully documented: through much of the central middle ages, we know who might have been resident at this manor and this, crucially, provides a model and a microcosm of gender and authority in the household environment in the central middle ages. Overall, the spatial construction of an elite authority at the estate level altered in this three-hundred-year period from the physical visibility of the elite persons, with the trappings of their material wealth and familial objects of memory, to the physical seclusion of the elite persons, letting instead their manor do the talking. But the evidence suggests no differing spatial roles for a man or a woman in charge. Instead, one position of authority was maintained, and that was to be held by the elite person in charge.