Deir el-Ballas consisted of several facilities-- the North Palace, the South Palace, and "clusters of habitation...located north and south of the central [North] palace"[3] The latter included a workman's village,[4] an administrative quarter "and a number of private houses, which ranged in size from small two-room huts to large 'villas'"[4][3] Peter Lacovara provided information on these at length in the September 2017 issue of Current World Archaeology: