Understair space adjacent to the Servants' Hall

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MOLA archaeologists are meticulously documenting Canons Ashby House, a sixteenth-century country estate in rural Northamptonshire that began as a humble farmhouse and evolved over time through successive expansions by the Dryden family, resulting in its current jumbled architecture. In addition to traditional drawing and photography techniques, the team has conducted a thorough laser survey of the house, and photogrammetric models have been created for several key features. This intriguing area of forgotten space offers valuable insights into the rearrangement of rooms and floor levels in the north-eastern section of the house, which became isolated by the construction of the Servant's Hall and adjacent staircase in the late 16th or early 17th centuries, potentially holding clues to missing rooms prior to these modifications.