• Gate House
• Court Yard
• East Range: Porch, Buck Hall, Dinning Parlour
• Chapel & Grand Staircase
• North-east corner
• North Range
• North-west corner
• South-west corner
• South Range
• South-east corner & Kitchen
• Key to dates & Owners

The South Range

The south range, like that to the north, is reduced to its foundations, but unlike its counterpart it was divided into two sections and was much wider, widening even more at its eastern end. On its court side it had a very large bay with two flanking stair turrets, to match that to the north, while to the south it had a square tower containing a passage, small room and garderobes. The ground floor of the range was used as a cellar except at its wider eastern end, where it was probably used for the kitchen office and scullery. The first floor was one long gallery until 1784 when it was converted into a suite of bedrooms and dressing rooms. Also the Viscount Montague's quarters seem to have been at the eastern end. The south range joined with the east at the pantry. Above this was the breakfast room and in the east corner, over the buttery, was a spiral stair leading down to the main hallway running through the house. The three doors to the south led to the buttery, kitchen entry and pantry, all contained in a rectangular block between the hall and kitchen. The way to the kitchen was through the kitchen entry, a narrow passage 26ft long and 7ft wide. This came out into an open triangular kitchen court, across which meals had to be carried. The court was later covered over.

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