The Ante Room where morning prayers were held for the servants. Formerly chapels in the Great Gatehouse, the Ante Room and the adjoining Upper Drawing Room still display the religious origins of their past in their architecture, most notably in the styling of the windows. The fireplace in the Ante Room is one of the more unusual features of the house, in that it is situated immediately beneath a window. There is consequently no central chimneypiece and the smoke is dispersed through flues on each side.

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