At Somersham in Huntingdonshire where Arundel kept horses stabled in the summer months the establishment was more expensive. Here the hall with its adjacent upper and lower chamber had a range of connecting offices including the pantry, buttery and stores respectively for the saucery, for fish, and for meat. There were two rooms called grandly the Wynterchaumbre and the Somerchaumbre with various underlying stores while two separate buildings had respectively six and five rooms apiece one for knights, clerks and squires and the other for the janitor and other officials. In this manor there were also two chapels, one the capella secreta for the Bishops own devotions, with its study and private chambers, linked by a passage with the hall, the other the capella communis. And of course in addition to all this were the kitchens, scalding house, colehouse and various outhouses including a forge. It must have been a sizable settlement.

Extracts from PRO E 143/9/2 m50
Ely Survey of 1357/8

transcription/description included by kind permission of Margaret Aston.