one hall with two chambers annexed, bakehouse, kitchen, and larder-house, one chamber for the vicar’s servant, and a hay-soller (soler = loft), with a competent garden.[150]
Ingrave Rectory house is described in the terrier of 1610 as—
a house containing a hall, a parlour, a buttery, two lofts, and a study, also a kitchen, a milk-house, and a house for poultry, a barn, a stable, and a hay-house.[151]
Ingatestone Rectory house, in the terrier of 1610, is described as—
a dwelling house with a hall, a parlour, and a chamber within it; a study newly built by the then parson; a chamber over the parlour, and another within that with a closet; without the dwelling-house a kitchen, and two little rooms adjoining it, and a chamber over them; two little butteries over against the hall, and next them a chamber, and one other chamber over the same; without the kitchen there is a dove-house, and another house built by the then parson; a barn and a stable very ruinous.[152]
Here we have an old house with hall in the middle, parlour and chamber at one end, and butteries and kitchen at the other, in the middle of later additions.
Mr. Froude gives an inventory, dated 1534, of the goods of the Rector of Allington, Kent, from which we take only the incidental description of the house which contained them.[153]
It consisted of hall, parlour, and chamber over the parlour, stairs-head beside the parson’s bed-chamber, parson’s lodging-chamber, study, chamber behind the chimney, chamber next adjoining westward, buttery, priest’s chamber [perhaps for the rector’s chaplain[154]], servants’ chamber, kitchen, mill-house, boulting house, larder, entries, women’s chamber; gate-house, still beside the gate; barn next the gate; cartlage, barn next the church, garden-house, court.
Here, again, we recognize the hall in the middle, the parlour and chamber over it at one end, with an adjoining study on the ground floor, and a chamber over it, as at Ingatestone, and at the other end the buttery, kitchen, larder, mill, boulting houses, with a priest’s chamber, and a servants’ chamber over it, women’s chamber over the kitchen, etc.; and we observe that the additional chambers for the master of the house and his family are grouped about the parlour and great chamber, while the chambers for guests and servants are added to the kitchen and offices at the lower end of the hall. These two projections backward would partially enclose a courtyard at the back of the hall.
The rectory at Little Bromley, Essex, is described (1610) as—