51 Fleetgate Upstairs - Front Room

Background:

This room would have been used as a bedroom. It is now mainly used for meetings, but currently it is empty afer the repair of the floor.

Principal Features:

• The fireplace is Victorian and quite different from the taller Georgian fireplace in the back room.
• Coal was expensive and it is likely that the fire would not have been lit very often. The room gets quite cold, even though it now has an electric heater. If the fire was lit the coal would have had to be carried all the way upstairs from the coal shed in the back yard. In the morning all the ashes would have had to be carried back down stairs and got rid of.
• The lock on the door has a wooden case.
• The Yorkshire slide window dates from the 18th century.
• The fishtail gas burner provided light at night.
• The tiolet was situated outside in the back yard.

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