From the details given in these surveys and in the leases and other documents preserved at Loseley, it is possible to form a very fair notion of their structure and uses. The chief rooms in both blocks were upon an upper floor. The northern block was 110 ft. in length from north to south and 36 ft. in width. The upper rooms, however, were only 26 ft. wide, as 10 ft. was taken up by a high stone gallery which ran along the west of the building, and was perhaps connected with the wooden gallery leading to the Fleet.[1] These rooms were four in number. That to the north, 21 ft. long, belonged to Cobham, and had a closet window looking into the church upon the south wall of which, for 20 ft. of its width, the block abutted.[2] Then came two central rooms, a large and a small one, measuring together 52 ft. in length, and then a southern one, which with an entry measured 47 ft.[3] The surveys treat the three rooms which fell to Cawarden as a single 'hall place'. All four rooms had probably formed part of the guest-house of the convent, and had lodged Charles V. The ground floor held low rooms pierced at intervals by entries and with cellars underneath them. The chief entry or gate-house was at the southern end and served Cawarden's mansion house when that was built.[4] North of this came the
- [Footnote: which all conteinethe in lengthe 95 fote and in bredethe 36 fote, abuttinge
to the Cloyster on thest side, the kitchyn on the west side, to the Lorde Cobham howse on the northe side, and on the southe side to a blinde parler that my Lord warden did Clayme. One howse called the vpper ffrater conteynethe in Lengthe 107 fote and in bredethe 52 fote, Abuttinge southe and est to the Ladie Kingston howse and gardein, northe to a hawle where the Kinges Revelles Liethe at theis presentes, and west towardes the Duchie Chamber and M^r Portinareyes howse. A voide rome, beinge an Entrie towardes the Litle Kitchyn & Cole howse, conteininge in Lengthe 30 fote and in bredethe 17 fote. One Chamber called the Duchie chamber, with a darke Lodginge there vnder, conteininge in Lengthe 50 fote and in bredethe 16 fote, abuttinge est agaynst the northe ende of the said ffrater, and abuttinge west apon M^r Portinareys parler. All which premisses be valued to be worthe by yere iij^{li} vj^s viij^d.']
- ↑ M. S. C. ii. 14, 24, 116, 117, 119, 120; cf. p. 482. The stone gallery was removed in 1564.
- ↑ Ibid. 13, 16, 115.
- ↑ Ibid. 14, 16.
- ↑ Ibid. 7, 11, 'an entrye or passage with a greate stayre therin' (1548, 1550), 21 'one entrye ledinge vnder parcell of the premysses demysed from that end of the house of William More wherin John Horleye his servaunt doth lodge' (1560), 118, 'the entre in the west ende of the garden openyng into the same garden' (1560), 31, 'an entrye leadynge from the sayde voyde ground into the sayd dwellynge howse or tenement of the sayd Sir William More' (1576), 63, 'the dore entry way voide ground and passage leadinge and vsed to and from the saide greate yard nexte the saide Pipe Office' (1596), 126, 'the gatehouse with the appurtenances on the west side of the sayd monastery' (1611), 'the great gate near the playhouse' (1617).
