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Unit 2 - Homes and households

A. Warter Priory - The big house at Baggaby Bottom
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The main entertaining rooms were:

• The Great Hall which measured 63ft by 30ft. It was oak panelled in the 'Tudor manner' and had 'a lofty raftered ceiling resting on carved stone corbels'.
• The Green Drawing Room which measured 36ft by 20ft.
• The Red Drawing Room. A T-shaped room measuring 38ft by 19ft and 31.5ft by 22.5ft. The room was hung with red silk damask and had 'enriched plaster ceilings' with painted panels.
• The Dining Room which measured 60ft by 30ft. The fireplace had an Italian marble and alabaster surround carved with dragons and cupids and floral and fruit designs.
• The Smoking Room which measured 22ft by 20.5 ft. It had French windows opening to stone steps to the Terrace.
• The Old Smoking Room which measured 22ft by 20ft.
• The Billiard Room which measured 33ft by 16ft.
  

	The measurement of the rooms given above are in feet. Convert these to metres and centimetres. (1 ft. = 0.305 metres.)
	Now compare the size of the main rooms at Warter Priory with the size of your classroom and rooms at your home.

Amongst the rooms in The Family Wing were a Large Schoolroom on the ground floor with a Night Nursery adjoining, and Lady Nunburnholme's Sitting Room and Bedroom both of which measured 31ft by 28ft. The Principal Guests' Bed Chambers included the Genoese Room, the Italian Room, the Queen Anne Room, the Bird Room, the Black Room, the Blue Room, the Green Room and The French Suite and a Lady's Maid's Room. The unmarried male visitors were accommodated in The Bachelors' Wing where there were four bedrooms and two valets' rooms each with space for three beds. At the top of the house was the accommodation for the servants which included a housekeeper's bedroom, four bedrooms for resident housemaids, five bedrooms for visiting maids, three bedrooms for footmen and two valets' rooms.

The Domestic Offices or Service Rooms were on the ground floor and included:

• Large Kitchen
• Scullery
• Larder
• Butchery
• Egg Larder
• China Pantry
• Still Room
• Butler's Pantry with Plate Safe
• Butler's Office
• Housekeeper's Room, fitted with a large range of cupboards
• Housemaids' Sitting Room
• Knife and Boot Cleaning Rooms
  

Below were the extensive cellars.

	How many rooms are there in your home?
	What are they used for?
	How many people live in your house?
	How many lived at Warter Priory in the late 19th century?