This would have been a second storeroom, called the Steward’s Room. The herbs and straw you see in this room would have been used in bedding and to dispel any fleas that may have lived there.

Whilst in this second storeroom, look at the “fenestral” window. This is made of linen stretched over wooden lattices and treated with alum, rosin and sheep’s tallow. The recipe came from a fifteenth century manuscript and makes the linen both translucent and weather proof. These “fenestralls” were the first produced for several centuries.