A closet was added to the solar suite of rooms. The solar was a chamber found in many medieval English and French manor homes, great houses, and castles. In such homes, there was a need for more seclusion for the head of the family and, especially, the elder ladies of the household. The roof was often thatched, formed from bundles of straw or reeds, but it might also be built of slate or wooden shingles, depending on what was available. The walls were often composed of widely spaced timbers, with the open sections filled with wattle and daub (woven reeds and mud) or rubble filled with mud.