Random Mansion Generator

One press builds a great house to draw, write or haunt: a real style, grounds, three rooms and a secret.

A Galician pazo at the end of a drive lined with stone urns. Inside: an imperial staircase, a solar and a still room. Today it is newly bought by someone who has not seen it in winter. Its secret: a walled-up doorway with new hinges.

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  • StyleGalician pazo
  • Groundsat the end of a drive lined with stone urns
  • Three roomsan imperial staircase, a solar and a still room
  • Todaynewly bought by someone who has not seen it in winter
  • Secreta walled-up doorway with new hinges
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    How it works

    This random mansion generator builds one great house in five parts: a real architectural style, the approach and grounds, three named rooms, what the house is today and one secret. No real house is named.

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    Build a mansion, then draw it

    Press New mansion until a house catches, then Copy it into your notes. Set a timer gives a drawing or a floor plan a fixed length. Print 30 mansions makes a sheet of prompts.

    What makes a house a mansion

    A great house is a large house with luxurious rooms and a big indoor and outdoor staff, so every set of rooms here pairs a grand room with one the servants used. Many such houses are now museums or hotels, and some are still a family seat. The list under the tool dates every style.

    Tips
    • For a haunted house, start from the secret and work outward.
    • Drawing it? The grounds line tells you what goes in the foreground.

    Questions and answers

    What rooms does a mansion have?

    Rooms an ordinary house lacks. A long gallery is a long, narrow room for walking and pictures. An orangery kept fruit trees through winter. The servants' hall was the staff dining room, and a still room was for preparing household compounds.

    How is this different from the random house generator?

    The random house generator deals an ordinary detached house with its colors and size. This one deals a great house with grounds, named rooms and a secret, from styles that page does not hold.

    Are these real mansions?

    No. The styles and room names are real and checked, and no real house is named. Each result is a made-up house for a story, a game map, a drawing or a build in a block game.

    Style: all 43 styles

    Britain 14

    • Adam-style house An 18th-century neoclassical style of interiors and architecture from a family of Scottish architects.
    • Arts and Crafts country house From a movement that began in the British Isles; its start can be dated to the 1880s.
    • border peel tower A small fortified tower house of the English and Scottish borders, mid-14th century to about 1600.
    Show all 43 styles (40 more)

    Britain, continued

    • Elizabethan prodigy house A large, showy English country house built by a courtier. Elizabeth I reigned from 1558 to 1603.
    • English Baroque great house The dramatic English style between the Great Fire of London in 1666 and about 1720.
    • Gothic Revival mansion A revival of medieval forms that became widespread in the first half of the 19th century.
    • Jacobean manor The second phase of Renaissance building in England, named for James I, who reigned 1603 to 1625.
    • Jacobethan hall A revival made popular in England from the late 1820s, mixing Elizabethan and Jacobean.
    • medieval manor house Historically the main residence of the lord of the manor, built around a great hall.
    • Palladian country house After the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio, 1508 to 1580: symmetry and classical form.
    • Regency villa Classical building of the early 19th century, when George IV was Prince Regent.
    • Scottish baronial house A 19th-century style that recalls the Scottish castles of the Late Middle Ages.
    • stone tower house Built for defense as well as for living in. Tower houses began to appear in the Middle Ages.
    • Tudor great house English building of the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, as Gothic gave way to the Renaissance.

    Continental Europe 18

    • Art Deco mansion A style that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s and flourished in the 1920s and early 1930s.
    • Art Nouveau villa An international style inspired by plants and flowers, popular between 1890 and 1910.
    • Biedermeier villa The Biedermeier period in the German lands ran between 1815 and 1848.
    • Empire-style mansion An early-19th-century movement that flourished in France between 1799 and 1815.
    • French château A manor house, palace or fine country house of the nobility, most often in French-speaking regions.
    • French Renaissance château In the style prominent in France between the late 15th and early 17th centuries.
    • Galician pazo A traditional Galician country house like a manor house, important in the 17th to 19th centuries.
    • German Schloss The German term for a building like a château, a palace or a manor house.
    • International Style mansion A movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated until the 1970s.
    • maison de plaisance A pleasure house: a country house lived in for a season, as a rest from court ceremony.
    • National Romantic villa A Nordic style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often counted as a form of Art Nouveau.
    • Neo-Grec mansion A Neoclassical revival of France's Second Empire, the reign of Napoleon III, 1852 to 1870.
    • Neoclassical mansion From the movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
    • Plateresque palace A Spanish style "in the manner of a silversmith" that appeared in the late 15th century.
    • Portuguese quinta Quinta is the traditional word for an estate in Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world.
    • Rococo palace Rococo emerged in France in the 1730s: ornament, curves and asymmetry.
    • Rundbogenstil villa The round-arch style, a 19th-century revival popular in German-speaking lands.
    • Venetian Gothic palace The Gothic of Venice, with Byzantine and Islamic influence. It dominated the 14th century.

    United States and Australia 11

    • American Renaissance mansion From a period of American architecture and the arts that ran from 1876 to 1917.
    • Baroque Revival mansion Also called Neo-Baroque: a style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    • Beaux-Arts mansion The academic style taught in Paris from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.
    • Châteauesque mansion Based on the Loire Valley châteaux of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century.
    • Egyptian Revival mansion Uses the motifs of ancient Egypt, a fashion that followed Napoleon's invasion of 1798.
    • Federation mansion In the Australian style that was prevalent from around 1890 to 1915.
    • Gilded Age mansion The Gilded Age of the United States ran from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s.
    • Moorish Revival villa A revival style that reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th century.
    • Renaissance Revival mansion One of a group of 19th-century revival styles drawn from Renaissance building.
    • Richardsonian Romanesque mansion Named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, 1838 to 1886.
    • Romanesque Revival mansion A style used from the mid-19th century, inspired by 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque.

    How this list was compiled: Real styles and kinds of great house, each with a dated line. Every line was written from the opening of that style's English Wikipedia article, fetched on 2026-09-30 through https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php, and a script then confirmed the dates and the key phrase of each line against the fetched text (article in x.src). Rule for the row: grand houses only, and no style that random-house-generator already deals as an ordinary house (Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Mission Revival and the rest of its list are left to that page). No plantation house, so no hacienda and no Cape Dutch manor, and no real house is named. The dower house was left out because its definition turns on a death in the family. Kinds of house that fix their own setting or their own rooms were written and then cut, because the other rows cannot follow them: the town house, the hôtel particulier, the brownstone, the Adirondack great camp, the yalı, the konak, the haveli, the siheyuan and the shoin-zukuri and shinden-zukuri residences. Each line fits the words "A ... beside a walled kitchen garden". Licence: own work

    Grounds: all 42 settings

    The approach 12

    • at the edge of a village that was built for its staff
    • at the end of a drive lined with stone urns
    • at the end of a long avenue of linden trees
    • at the end of a private road through pine woods
    • at the head of a beech avenue
    • behind a moat that is now a lily pond
    Show all 42 settings (36 more)

    The approach, continued

    • behind tall iron gates and a gatehouse
    • beside the ruin of the older house it replaced
    • in a deer park ringed by a stone wall
    • on a cliff above its own cove
    • on a hill, with the whole valley for a view
    • on an island reached by a causeway

    Gardens 16

    • above three terraces of clipped yew
    • among overgrown rhododendrons
    • behind a ha-ha, a sunk fence that keeps the view open
    • behind a rose garden laid out as a wheel
    • behind a topiary garden of clipped birds
    • beside a hedge maze nobody has trimmed in years
    • beside a walled kitchen garden
    • facing a parterre of gravel and low hedges
    • with a balustrade along the whole garden front
    • with a bowling green gone to daisies
    • with a croquet lawn and a summerhouse
    • with a knot garden under its south windows
    • with a pergola walk heavy with wisteria
    • with a walled orchard of old pear trees
    • with an arboretum planted by six generations
    • with glasshouses along the garden wall

    Water 7

    • above a lake dug to look natural
    • above water meadows that flood each spring
    • beside a boathouse on a private river bend
    • beside a reflecting pool as long as the house
    • with a carriage circle and a dry fountain
    • with a grotto beside the lower pond
    • with a pillared summerhouse beside the lake

    Outbuildings 7

    • beside an ice house dug into the hillside
    • with a carriage house bigger than most homes
    • with a dovecote older than the house
    • with a folly tower on the far hill
    • with a kitchen garden still laid out in squares
    • with a stable court and a clock over its arch
    • with an avenue of statues, each missing something

    How this list was compiled: Our own lines, written on 2026-09-30, on how a great house is approached and what lies around it. Each follows the name of the house ("A Regency villa ..."). The garden and estate terms are real, and each was confirmed that day as the subject of its own English Wikipedia article: Arboretum, Avenue (landscape), Balustrade, Beech, Boathouse, Bowling green, Carriage house, Causeway, Croquet, Deer park (England), Dovecote, Folly, Fountain, Gatehouse, Greenhouse, Grotto, Ha-ha, Hedge maze, Ice house (building), Kitchen garden, Knot garden, Moat, Orchard, Parterre, Pergola, Reflecting pool, Rhododendron, Rose garden, Stable, Summer house, Sundial, Tilia, Topiary, Walled garden, Water-meadow, Wisteria, Yew. A ha-ha is a sunk fence that keeps animals out without breaking the view, and a linden is the tree British gardeners call a lime; both are from those articles. Screened by script against the rows of random-house-generator, random-building-generator and random-room-generator: no line is on two pages. Licence: own work

    Three rooms: all 50 sets of rooms

    A 50

    • a ballroom, a belvedere and a lumber room A ballroom is a large room for the formal parties called balls.
    • a ballroom, a cabinet and a servants' hall A ballroom is a large room for the formal parties called balls.
    • a ballroom, a print room and a servants' hall A ballroom is a large room for the formal parties called balls.
    Show all 50 sets of rooms (47 more)

    A, continued

    • a ballroom, a print room and an undercroft A ballroom is a large room for the formal parties called balls.
    • a ballroom, a solar and a butler's pantry A ballroom is a large room for the formal parties called balls.
    • a ballroom, a solar and a scullery A ballroom is a large room for the formal parties called balls.
    • a drawing room, a boudoir and an undercroft A drawing room is where visitors are entertained; the name is short for withdrawing room.
    • a drawing room, a cabinet and an undercroft A drawing room is where visitors are entertained; the name is short for withdrawing room.
    • a drawing room, a nursery and an undercroft A drawing room is where visitors are entertained; the name is short for withdrawing room.
    • a drawing room, a study and an undercroft A drawing room is where visitors are entertained; the name is short for withdrawing room.
    • a drawing room, an orangery and a lumber room A drawing room is where visitors are entertained; the name is short for withdrawing room.
    • a great chamber, a boudoir and a butler's pantry The great chamber was the second most important room after the great hall.
    • a great chamber, a boudoir and a scullery The great chamber was the second most important room after the great hall.
    • a great chamber, a cabinet and a scullery The great chamber was the second most important room after the great hall.
    • a great chamber, a fernery and a servants' hall The great chamber was the second most important room after the great hall.
    • a great chamber, a nursery and a lumber room The great chamber was the second most important room after the great hall.
    • a great chamber, a print room and a buttery The great chamber was the second most important room after the great hall.
    • a great hall, a belvedere and a lumber room The great hall was the main room of a large medieval house.
    • a great hall, a belvedere and a servants' hall The great hall was the main room of a large medieval house.
    • a great hall, a boudoir and a lumber room The great hall was the main room of a large medieval house.
    • a great hall, a cabinet and a buttery The great hall was the main room of a large medieval house.
    • a great hall, a minstrels' gallery and an undercroft The great hall was the main room of a large medieval house.
    • a great hall, an orangery and a lumber room The great hall was the main room of a large medieval house.
    • a long gallery, a nursery and a butler's pantry A long gallery is a long, narrow room, popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
    • a long gallery, a nursery and a buttery A long gallery is a long, narrow room, popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
    • a long gallery, a print room and a servants' hall A long gallery is a long, narrow room, popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
    • a long gallery, a solar and a still room A long gallery is a long, narrow room, popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
    • a long gallery, a study and a larder A long gallery is a long, narrow room, popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
    • a long gallery, a study and a lumber room A long gallery is a long, narrow room, popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
    • a rotunda, a belvedere and a larder A rotunda here is a round room, sometimes under a dome.
    • a rotunda, a fernery and a buttery A rotunda here is a round room, sometimes under a dome.
    • a rotunda, a fernery and an undercroft A rotunda here is a round room, sometimes under a dome.
    • a rotunda, a loggia and a larder A rotunda here is a round room, sometimes under a dome.
    • a rotunda, a study and a buttery A rotunda here is a round room, sometimes under a dome.
    • a suite of state rooms, a billiard room and a still room State rooms were a suite of very grand rooms kept for entertaining royalty.
    • a suite of state rooms, a fernery and a scullery State rooms were a suite of very grand rooms kept for entertaining royalty.
    • a suite of state rooms, a palm house and a butler's pantry State rooms were a suite of very grand rooms kept for entertaining royalty.
    • a suite of state rooms, a palm house and a buttery State rooms were a suite of very grand rooms kept for entertaining royalty.
    • a suite of state rooms, a print room and a buttery State rooms were a suite of very grand rooms kept for entertaining royalty.
    • a suite of state rooms, a solar and a servants' hall State rooms were a suite of very grand rooms kept for entertaining royalty.
    • a two-story library, a conservatory and a still room The library is the grand room here; the other two tell you how the house ran.
    • a two-story library, a fernery and a larder The library is the grand room here; the other two tell you how the house ran.
    • a two-story library, a loggia and a servants' hall The library is the grand room here; the other two tell you how the house ran.
    • a two-story library, a nursery and a scullery The library is the grand room here; the other two tell you how the house ran.
    • a two-story library, an orangery and a servants' hall The library is the grand room here; the other two tell you how the house ran.
    • an imperial staircase, a belvedere and an undercroft An imperial staircase has divided flights: one rises to a landing, then splits in two.
    • an imperial staircase, a billiard room and a scullery An imperial staircase has divided flights: one rises to a landing, then splits in two.
    • an imperial staircase, a solar and a still room An imperial staircase has divided flights: one rises to a landing, then splits in two.
    • an imperial staircase, an orangery and a butler's pantry An imperial staircase has divided flights: one rises to a landing, then splits in two.
    • an imperial staircase, an orangery and a still room An imperial staircase has divided flights: one rises to a landing, then splits in two.

    How this list was compiled: Fifty sets of three rooms, each set one grand room, one room for leisure and one for the staff, joined by script from 31 real room names. Every room name was confirmed on 2026-09-30 as the subject of an English Wikipedia article (Ballroom, Belvedere (structure), Billiard room, Boudoir, Butler's pantry, Buttery (room), Cabinet (room), Conservatory (greenhouse), Drawing room, Fernery, Great chamber, Great hall, Imperial staircase, Larder, Library, Loggia, Long gallery, Lumber room, Minstrels' gallery, Nursery (room), Orangery, Palm house, Print room, Rotunda (architecture), Scullery, Servants' hall, Solar (room), State room, Still room, Study (room), Undercroft), and the note on each set explains its grand room in words checked against that article's opening. Left out: the smoking room, the gun room, the wine cellar and the chapel. No set repeats a line of random-room-generator. Licence: own work

    Today: all 31 states

    Still a home 6

    • empty except for a caretaker and her dog
    • home to one elderly owner who uses three rooms
    • kept exactly as it was on the day the last owner left
    • lit only on the ground floor
    • lived in by the same family for nine generations
    • newly bought by someone who has not seen it in winter
    Show all 31 states (25 more)

    Open to the public 10

    • a hotel that keeps the family portraits on the walls
    • a library with books in every room
    • a museum of itself, with ropes across the chairs
    • a music school, noisy from every window
    • a public park, with the house as its tearoom
    • a school, with desks in the grandest room
    • a town hall, since the town grew up around it
    • a youth hostel with bunk beds upstairs
    • open to visitors on summer weekends
    • owned by a trust that opens it one day a year

    Put to work 8

    • a film set, repainted for every picture
    • a guest house with the old bells still on the kitchen wall
    • a headquarters for a society nobody will describe
    • a research institute with a lab in the stables
    • a set of offices, with the boardroom where the family dined
    • an artists' colony every summer
    • rented room by room to painters
    • split into apartments, one grand room each

    Fading 7

    • being measured for a restoration that starts in spring
    • for sale, as it has been for years
    • half restored and out of money
    • in its third year under scaffolding
    • overgrown, with ivy across the front door
    • roofless in one wing since a storm
    • shut up under dust sheets

    How this list was compiled: Our own lines, written on 2026-09-30, on what has become of the house; each follows the words "Today it is". The range (still a family seat, open to the public as a museum, run as a hotel, or lost) follows the fates the English Wikipedia article Great house lists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_house, fetched that day). No hospital and nothing about illness. Screened by script against the condition and use rows of random-building-generator and the rows of random-house-generator and random-room-generator. Licence: own work

    Secret: all 41 secrets

    Hidden spaces 14

    • a cellar one level deeper than the plans show
    • a cupboard deeper than the wall it stands in
    • a floor laid over an older, painted one
    • a gate in the garden wall with no handle inside
    • a mirror that is really a window
    • a painting hung to hide a door
    • a rooftop walk that only the gardener knows
    Show all 41 secrets (34 more)

    Hidden spaces, continued

    • a room with no door, seen only from the garden
    • a second staircase that the plans leave out
    • a second, smaller dining room behind the first
    • a stair behind the library shelves
    • a tunnel from the cellar to the boathouse
    • a window you can count from outside and never find inside
    • a wing that was sealed and never mentioned again

    Papers and names 10

    • a coat of arms with one quarter chiseled off
    • a diary kept in the linen cupboard for forty years
    • a letter under a loose stair tread
    • a map of the grounds showing a pond that is not there
    • a missing chapter in the history of the house
    • a room papered with unsent letters
    • a visitors' book that skips a whole summer
    • a will that was never read
    • an heir who was written out of the family tree
    • the first plans, which show a different house

    Objects 11

    • a clock that was stopped on purpose
    • a date cut into a roof beam, older than the house
    • a key that fits every lock but one
    • a locked trunk in the attic and a key nobody has tried
    • a portrait whose sitter nobody will name
    • a safe behind the nursery wallpaper
    • a set of drawers with a false bottom in each
    • a speaking tube between two bedrooms far apart
    • a statue in the garden that faces the wrong way
    • a strongroom whose combination nobody wrote down
    • a telescope on the roof, trained on one village window

    Odd things 6

    • a bell that rings in the empty servants' hall
    • a bricked-up fireplace with a draft behind it
    • a dumbwaiter big enough to ride in
    • a room kept ready for someone who has not come
    • a walled-up doorway with new hinges
    • an ice house that was used for something else

    How this list was compiled: Our own lines, written on 2026-09-30: one secret for the house, following the words "Its secret:". Rules: a secret is a place, a paper or an object to find, never a crime, a death or a ghost, so a result suits a mystery for any age. Nothing here repeats the Standout feature row of random-building-generator (the staircase to a blank wall, the room on the plans that nobody can find and the spiral stair behind a false wall are that page's); the screen was run by script against it and against random-house-generator and random-room-generator. Licence: own work