DIMENSIONS AND HOUSING CAPACITY
The building is 100 feet long and 80 feet wide. Its great
common hall covers a surface area of 65 feet by 45 feet. It
contains in its center a hearth or cooking area 17½ feet
long and 15 feet wide. The lean-to's of the hall, if used as
stables, could accommodate fourteen horses under the
eastern hip of the roof and sixteen horses under the western
hip (counting per horse a standing area 5 feet wide and 7½
feet long). Each of the four large rooms in the aisles have a
bedding capacity for ten to twelve men (if the beds were
ranged in standard fashion around the four walls of the
room). Total occupancy: thirty horses and forty to forty-four
men. If utilized in barrack fashion—and especially, if
the large common hall in the center was also used for stabling
and bedding—the housing capacity of the building
could be tripled.
