The room or space immediately inside the main door of a large or grand building.
on the ground floor there was an impressive entrance hall leading to the various living rooms
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- The entrance hall is a dignified and reassuring double-height space separated from the library areas by a glass wall.
- Guests entered through a marble-lined entrance hall.
- When the couple steps into the impressive entrance hall they should have no problem leaving behind the hustle and bustle of life outside.
- The imposing entrance hall gives onto the central court.
- The entrance hall has lovely arches and the easels were at a good viewing height.
- The sculpture has been removed from the entrance hall.
- The children's library at first floor level overlooks the entrance hall.
- Flanking the entrance hall are the museum shop and cloakrooms.
- He led the way from the entrance hall, leaving small wet footprints as he went.
- She stood in the once magnificent entrance hall.
- They shook hands and headed back for the entrance hall.
- Daylight reaches down to the ground level, contrasting with the dim light of the historic entrance hall.
- The entrance hall is tiled in black marble and is dominated by a dramatic striped artwork.
- The spiral stair acts as a viewing platform for a particularly precious antique tapestry hung on the rear wall of the entrance hall.
- The entrance hall is both austere and rather daunting.
- Some of the huge columns in the entrance halls are engraved with Turkish decorations.
- An elongated entrance hall leads past the library into the double-height void at the heart of the house.
- He added two wings and a new entrance hall in 1745.
- They were walking into a large entrance hall.
- From the wooden gallery you look down into the entrance hall.