When were house windows first use?
Windows in houses and other buildings have been used ever since
ancient times, in the Babylonian, Assyrian and Pharonic Egyptian
Empires, although in those days they were simply open gaps that
were covered with either fabric curtains or shutters at night. Even
the Romans, who used glassware a lot in tableware, never used glass
in their windows as they had not mastered the technique of rolling
it to make window panes.
The Bronze and Iron Age tribes of Europe did not have windows in
their residential huts at all, though they did have small openings
in their 'moot halls' to allow light in.
Glass first began to be used in windows in late Anglo-Saxon
times, mostly in churches, but these could only be constructed
using small pieces of glass held together in a framework of lead.
This is why stained-glass windows in Mediaeval cathedrals and
churches are made up of small pieces with leaden supports in
between. During this era, glass in windows was reserved for
ecclesiastical use in monasteries, abbeys and churches- even the
wealthy upper classes living in castles or fortified manors had
open windows that were sealed with wooden shutters at night.
The technique of making plate-glass windows by rolling molten
glass into flat pieces was not developed until the latter years of
King Henry VIII's reign (i.e. 1540's), but it was only the nobility
and extremely wealthy who could afford to have these installed-
many continued to use the old-style lattice windows, and
plate-glass continued to be unusual up until the end of the 17th
Century. It was only from around the time of the architect Sir
Christopher Wren that plate glass came into widespread use.