jan 1, 1618 - kitchen

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Although a kitchen was usually a room or part of a house where food was prepared, it may sometimes have been a separate building, perhaps similar to an ‘oven-house’. 1481 ‘the lessee ... to make new at his own cost a house called the kitchen and another house called the stable within the appurtenances of the messuage’, Southowram (YRS69/139); 1618 <i> all the dwelling roumes conteining three bayes; half a bay of the barne ... a little house called the kitchen </i>, Handsworth Woodhouse (YAJ20/17).

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