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 FOURTH PERIOD 434 THE PALACE the street, and there is a door from the street to the kitchen depart- ment. The kitchen has a large fireplace with a window at one end of it,, and a stone " filler " for water supplied from the well which is in the adjoining street, and the scullery has a stone drain to the outside. T r FIG. 872. The Palace, Cnlross. Plan of First Floor. To the north of the kitchen there is an outer kitchen entering from a small courtyard. This was probably used in connection with the stable buildings and rooms above, lying to the east. The principal rooms are on the first floor, to which the entrance is by a wide outside flight of steps in a recess in the centre of the mansion (Fig. 871). This leads to a landing or corridor, also in the open air, from which access is obtained to the hall and to a bedroom at the south end (Fig. 872). The hall and the above bedroom both communicate with the with- drawing-room in the south-west angle of the building. This bedroom, which may have been a guest's room, was thus quite separated from the more private apartments. The owner's own room entered from the hall, and through it was the strong room, carefully vaulted and protected with double iron doors. The room behind the hall has a door communicating with the garden,, which, owing to the slope of the ground, is on a higher level than the