The kitchen still retains an early-18th-century construction that originally formed part of a great hearth — a brick hood for the extraction of fumes that rests on a metal beam and two wrought-iron stanchions. The large brick stove hand no separate chimney. It has been recreated on the basis of similar surviving stoves using authentic bricks of the period. It has several stoke holes and deep arched niches used for drying firewood. Quite often an open fire was lit on the top of the stove, in which case the copper vessels were suspended on iron tripods.