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screens passage

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screens passage
In a medieval hall, 1, a wooden screen placed in front of the doors that led to the kitchen or buttery so as to block them from view.
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Originally entered from the side via a screens passage, this room was where Sir Thomas Holte would have conducted his business and also where his servants took their meals.
ASTON HALL; ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT by Birmingham Mail (England)
Attached to it, on the other side of what is called the Screens Passage, is an extension built in Jacobean times.
A favourite haunt by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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