 The removal of floor-boarding and the excavation of a series of channels approximately in depth for proposed new floor support bases in both of these rooms, exposed the remains of an earlier stone pitched or cobbled floor in the former Drawing Room and a compacted earth floor in the former Best Parlour, which would most likely have once been covered in a stone flagged floor, now absent.Further evidence for the division of these two rooms was provided by the remains of a timber slot in the floor, which most probably formed part of a larger wooden partition between the two rooms.The overburden covering both of these earlier floor surfaces appeared to be all one demolition deposit, which averaged a depth of approximately .