By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 399 



The rest of the east wing is occupied by the kitchen, a room for 

 the most part of the seventeenth century, but it retains on the 

 outside the north-east angle l)uttress of the earlier work. The 

 north wall is 7|ft. in thickness and contains the great fireplace^ 

 with a cupboard on either side of contemporary date, and there 

 is a three-light window in the east wall and one of two lights 

 opposite, both of which have window seats with oak panelled 

 backs. Originally the kitchen was open to the roof, but it has 

 now a room above with a three-light window in the east wall and 

 a fireplace in the north. The roof is of the same date as that over 

 the great chamber. 



The position of "The Shoppe" and its use is not clear, but it 

 was apparently in the angle formed by the hall and kitchen, and 

 must have been removed before the kitchen was altered in the 

 seventeenth century, on account of the window of that date on the 

 west side of the kitchen. 



There is a seventeenth century outhouse north of the kitchen 

 with a later bakehouse beyond, but neither contains anything of 

 interest. There is, further north, a seventeenth century privy, 

 the south wall of which seems to have been continued as the north 

 wall of the inner court. 



Before the late alterations there was a pentise carried on wooden 

 posts at the back of the hall, which returned northwards as far 

 as the door into the outhouse. 



Bewley Court has passed through many hands with varied 

 fortune, but is now, though only used to house a caretaker, well 

 cared for, and no further damage from neglect is ever likely to 

 occur ill future. 



' Thr <j:vrA\ \\\\ckuc>> of this wall may iinlicatf that |>art.>^ of th«» fifteenth 

 •tMitury tirciilaiT rrniain tin»h.M- tin- I'la.stcr. 



