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FOURTH PERIOD 548 MAGDALENS HOUSE probably contained a withdrawing-room over the hall, but this part of the building is now cut up into workmen's houses, and its original arrangements cannot be easily ascertained. In the south wing was the kitchen, the large fireplace of which still remains. It had a door enter- ing from the courtyard (close to the staircase turret) and another door- way into the hall. The rooms in the north wing were probably the proprietor's private room and bedroom, the latter having a garde-robe. Part of the wall between the windows is here thinned off in similar manner to that in the hall. The upper floor no doubt contained bed- FIG. 969. Magdalens House. View in Courtyard partly restored. rooms, and the small turret, taken down only a few years ago, and restored in the view from the courtyard (Fig. 9^9) seems to have led to an attic in the high-pitched roof. The corbelling and the thick wall on the ground floor to support it still exist. In this thickened part of the wall was the well, with a neatly-formed opening in the outer angle, now built up. A narrow passage between the kitchen gable and the low buildings which contained stables and other offices, led from the high-road into the courtyard, but the principal entrance gateway was