Posted by Peter Ceresole on June 07, 2014 at 02:10:03 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Ransome's Sketch - Re: Beckfoot Layout posted by Tom Napier on June 06, 2014 at 08:48:20:
An interior feature for which there is no canonical justification but which would probably be present in a house of Beckfoot's period is a lobby.
Yes, very much so. When I was small, after 1945, we lived in London in a fairly large Victorian house (well, it felt large to me at the time) and that had a lobby just as you describe, with a walk-in wardrobe that I used to hide in, and peek out between the coats. With heating as ropey as it was in those days, it was a crucial defence against the weather.
I'd have thought that in the North, a lobby would have been even more essential.