Mansion/grange complexes have been developing over centuries. They have ap-peared in Lower Silesia relatively early and subjected to intense development, first and foremost due to high-quality of soils existing in the region under consideration. Lower Sile-sian rural settlement structures, wherein either grange or mansion/grange layouts have been established, feature very interesting rural arrangements. On the grounds of studies having been made, three fundamental typologies were distinguished: 1) basing on analyses of rural arrangement of country settlements, the relations between grange and village were determi-ned; 2) upon detailed review of spatial compositions of selected mansion/grange layouts, the typology due to spatial development arrangement was provided; 3) the functions of individual granges have been reviewed and typology due to the representative/economic functions was distinguished. It shall be born in mind that grange complexes, despite that they were independent and self-sufficient territorial units, were always inseparable from spatial composition of the remaining village portions. They had great effect on not only rural character of specific place, but also its architecture.

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