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LLANCAIACH FAWR –
INFO.
Dare you enter the haunted house?
At Llancaiach Fawr lots of history is revealed!
Go for a ghostly tour! (spooky!)
Visit the barn which contains tables, chairs, and
a drinks bar.
There is also a gift shop, café, and a small
museum.
Enter the house, to find out if I am telling the
truth!
The Entrance Porch.
You are given a pass before you enter. This needs to be
stamped with Edward Prichard’s personal seal before you step
foot in Llancaiach Fawr. You must have it stamped or you are not
allowed to enter his house, and, probably not allowed to enter his
gardens.
Once you have entered the porch, a servant shall tell you a
little about what everyday life was like in Stuart times. They tell
you what they eat, what they did in their spare time, and when
they finish telling you all that, they tell you not to run because of
the uneven floors.
The Kitchen.
In the kitchen you will find lots of different foods laid out on
the table. See if you can spot the pumpkin, raisins, brown sugar
and potatoes? The kitchen was where they prepared meals.
 They eat things that we wouldn’t eat! Like cat pie, or crow
pie where they pull the crow out of the pie, and eat it. Oh, and
they use the claws to pick at things in their teeth. Ew!
You will see a huge fireplace. It is very big, and has a hole in
the wood covering the top. That is because the kitchen boy
wasn’t looking and the flames grew and burnt off half of the
child’s face. (Oops!)
There is an extremely small window in the corner of the room
which lets in a lot of light.
The Servants Hall.
The Servants hall is a place where the servants eat. There are
three tables, the high table, medium table, and the low table.
The plates are made of wood with a hole in the corner for
salt. These are called tronches. The cups are made from a
bull’s horn. Servants ate with spoons made from wood and
bone.
 The lower servants ate with ‘Gods spoons!’ – their hands.
The Great Hall.
The Great Hall is where they have ‘debates’. Also, the king
(Charles I ) had once before dined in there.
On the table, they displayed things they used as
punishments. They sent people to jail, they made them wear
helmets decorated with spikes and a piece of metal that came
down over your face, into your mouth, and held down your
tongue so you couldn’t speak.(Nasty!)
On occasions it may also have served as a court room
where minor cases would have been heard. This was also the
room where the colour of the original limewash was not
white. Possibly this was a way of showing how important
this room was.
The Parlour.
The Parlour is the family room for the Prichards who
lived at Llanciach Fawr, and is where they ate their
meals.The walls were panelled so you could open some of
them to store secret things in! The magnificent panelling
was first made in the 1620s. It is still mostly the original
oak it was made with when it was first built.
Mr Prichard’s bedroom.
This is where he slept. Whenever he went to bed, he always
fell asleep in a sitting up position. I don’t know why, but you
can find out for your self when you go there, can’t you?
He had a four poster bed, just like all the other bedrooms.
The bed was very low to the floor. Also the bed was very
short, so perhaps that’s why he wouldn’t be able to lie down
in the nights.
Mrs Prichard’s bedroom.
Mrs Prichard was quite a fat woman. Maybe because each
lady in those days had to give birth to a child every year. That
is why a cradle lay next to her bed. Above the cradle hung a
sweet smelling ball, that is said to keep away the devil, or
something silly like that.
Mr Prichard’s study.
This is the last room we visited. In the corner, there was
a little desk where he sat to do his work. There is also a
little door where they keep birds to send letters to other
folk, such as his brother in law.
There are steps leading down to his kitchen in case he
got a bit hungry. Next to the stairs, he kept things such as
armour and weapons for when he went to battle.