'The hall is seen on entering the gateway...It is a low plain brick building, with a small turret, and two large projecting bow windows at the west end... The roof is of timber, arched, and divided into pannels by ribs springing from the sides; but it is very plain and poor, compared with others of a similar kind. The floor at the upper end of the hall is raised a step for the principals, as at the Middle Temple, &c. It has in like manner a fire-place in the midst, and the same disposition of tables and benches...' (Herbert, <i>Antiquities</i> 327--8).