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<span style="color:#800000;"> '''6 - Ground-floor Servants Quarters:''' | <span style="color:#800000;"> '''6 - Ground-floor Servants Quarters:''' | ||
| − | <span style="color:#800000;"> '''7 - Kitchen & Bakery:''' This room has stone walls and groin vaulting for fire protection. A massive fireplace, ten feet wide and large enough to cook an entire ox, dominates the room. A smaller baking oven flanks it. The double doors from the courtyard are usually left open during the day to dissipate the heat generated by the cooking fires. A trapdoor just inside the entrance opens to the cellars. A block and tackle suspended from the ceiling above the trapdoor is used to lower crates and barrels into the cellars below. A spiral stone staircase leads up to the | + | <span style="color:#800000;"> '''7 - Kitchen & Bakery:''' This room has stone walls and groin vaulting for fire protection. A massive fireplace, ten feet wide and large enough to cook an entire ox, dominates the room. A smaller baking oven flanks it. The double doors from the courtyard are usually left open during the day to dissipate the heat generated by the cooking fires. A trapdoor just inside the entrance opens to the cellars. A block and tackle suspended from the ceiling above the trapdoor is used to lower crates and barrels into the cellars below. A spiral stone staircase leads up to the second floor and down to the cellar. |
<span style="color:#800000;"> '''8 - The Dinning Hall:''' | <span style="color:#800000;"> '''8 - The Dinning Hall:''' | ||
Revision as of 03:49, 15 January 2014
First Floor
1 - Inn Exterior: Area one constitutes the area immediately around the outside of the inn. In the drawing of the inn, there appears to be a dry-moat, but that was dispensed with, instead there is a fifteen foot wide walkway of flagstones encircling the inn. Beyond that there is standard turf that is kept short out to about 19m (62 feet). That is also the distance from the road to the gatehouse.
2 - The Gatehouse: This is the only access to the interior of the fortified inn. The groin-vaulted entrance is protected by two sets of six-inch thick iron-clad oak doors. The gates are normally open during the day, with two men-at-arms always on guard within the shadowy interior. Likely birds nest in the upper reaches of the gatehouse. The gatehouse is about twelve feet wide, about sixteen feet deep and fourteen feet from floor to ceiling; its is capable of admitting a small modern truck, an old fashion wagon or a set of two horses side-by-side.
3 - The Courtyard: The cobbled courtyard is small but kept neat and tidy. Two sheds for firewood have been built against the main hall wall. The inn's sixteen fireplaces consume vast amounts of wood. A local woodcutter makes daily deliveries. A stone-lined well, surrounded by a waist-high wall, provides an authentic medieval touch. The rope and bucket are attached to a winch. The water is clear and cold.
4 - Captain of the Guard's Personal Chambers:
5 - Tutor's Room:
6 - Ground-floor Servants Quarters:
7 - Kitchen & Bakery: This room has stone walls and groin vaulting for fire protection. A massive fireplace, ten feet wide and large enough to cook an entire ox, dominates the room. A smaller baking oven flanks it. The double doors from the courtyard are usually left open during the day to dissipate the heat generated by the cooking fires. A trapdoor just inside the entrance opens to the cellars. A block and tackle suspended from the ceiling above the trapdoor is used to lower crates and barrels into the cellars below. A spiral stone staircase leads up to the second floor and down to the cellar.
8 - The Dinning Hall:
9 - Bath House:
10 - Cold Room:
11 - Barn & Loft:
12 - Storeroom:
13 - Stables:
