This is where the wine barrels or butts were kept. The servant who worked in from this room was the butler.

Wine would have been claret from Gascony, or Rhenish wine, from the Rhinelands. Wine would have been for the gentry whilst commoner folk drank ale.

Barley Hall displays more than 20 different types of pottery mostly based on originals found in and around York, including local Hambleton greenware, ‘Walmgate jugs’ and purple Humberware. There is also imported Low Countries frying pans and salt glazed stoneware from the Rhineland. See if you can see the odd looking green glazed bowl which may have been used for drinking games. As the liquid sinks, two swimming stags are revealed.