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Description: | The range was built in four timber-framed bays, on three floors. The whole of the first frame was completed as one unit, and then hoisted into position against the wall of the pantry. The Great Hall was not linked to this wing.The survey showed that rather than an arrangement of twelve similar, linked rooms; the range was originally divided into four suites of rooms, separate from each other. Each suite a completely different layoutThe first suite was formed by the ground floor bay next to the pantry wall, and the first floor room above it, linked by a straight stair.The second suite at the south end of the ground floor and had a decorative octagonal post in the centre and was made up of the two adjacent bays.The third suite of three rooms on the first floor was reached from the central ground floor bay by an inside stair.The whole of the second floor formed the fourth suite, linked by a corridor. Access to this suite was via an outside staircase at the south end of the wing. This staircase was removed by the 1600s, to make way for a wall that ran between the west and east ranges. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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