Interior
South Range
The south range and dairy were divided up into servant quarters were plainly finished with few visible features. Historically they were used as service rooms and nurseries. The former day nursery (first floor) has an 18th century wooden fireplace surround fronting a large stack at the east end of the range. The west end became a butler´s cottage. A photograph taken in the 1950s shows a large plain arched fireplace in the ground floor west end room. In 1950 the adjoining dairy had white glazed tiled walls and a fountain. In 1970 brief notes were made on the roof structure, which was thought to be of cruck construction and the 1976 roof survey drawing shows a truss with curved feet dieing into the wall; it has a high straight collar and no other ties. This probably a roof of knee principal type, current in the 17th century and designed to provide unimpeded attic space. The cellars appear to be original to the build. The tunnel-vault under the courtyard and its lantern cannot anecdote the extensions to the north range and this may be the date of the cellars under the range itself. Alternatively they may date to the period of its construction.
