East Wing in Detail
(Fig 1 below) The courtyard to the East (right) wing is marked
"Stableyard". Working clockwise starting from the South
East room (bottom right, just above the circular stamp of the Sir
John Soane's Museum) the rooms are labelled :- Hen House 8 by 16,
Calves 7 by 16, Cow House 20 by 16, Stable 16 by 15, Stable 16 by 24,
Dairy 16 by 11'6 (This is the oval room), Pales (sic. pails ? the
small circular room off this), Scullery (?) 8.6 by 11.6, Wash House
& Laundry, Drying Yard.
The upper level of the East Wing seems to have been mainly hayloft,
with rooms for farm hands, dairy maids and stable boy etc.
East Wing
Fig 1. "U" shaped East Wing. Detail of
Plan Fig 4 above. The courtyard on the East side is marked
Stableyard. The plan shows a cowhouse on the South side, but Fig 4
shows large arched openings in this wall, as if to accommodate a
cart, so presumably the cows were located elsewhere
Fig 2. East Wing. View from Roof of the House. This
shows how the turrets that appear to stand four square from ground
level are actually formed by wall projections.
Fig 3. East Wing. South Elevation. The view is looking North
East. The bowed wall on the left is the South screen wall
of the entrance courtyard.
Fig 4. East Wing. Courtyard. This view, taken looking South
West Shows how the turrets are used at each of the corners to contain
and frame the parts of the building