Wiktionary
n. 1 Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio, or garage, set up where work can be performed; a workstation. 2 A place of employment; workplace. 3 A laboratory.
Usage examples of "workstead".
The castle was a community in itself, homes, worksteads, chapels, stadium, even laboratories and a museum.
Likewise, guides conducted virtual-reality tours of the world, walks through its important or beautiful sights, into worksteads and museums(?
Nearer to the town there were worksteads on both sides of the dusty white road: trades that weren’t allowed in the city or needed more space - a big tannery whose stink made her blink and cough, a potter’s kilns like big stumpy beehives sending off waves of heat she could feel a dozen yards away, some smithies, and .