Screens

Wooden partition at the lower or kitchen end of a hall. The screens passage lay between it and the kitchen etc. Traces still remain at Hemyock.

♦ Wooden partition at the kitchen end of a hall, protecting a passage leading to buttery, pantry, and kitchen.

(Gies, Joseph and Francis. Life in a Medieval Castle, 226)

♦ Wooden paritions at lower end of hall, separating the latter from the entry or service screens passage, a cross-passage which has hall entrances and doorways to pantry, buttery and kitchen passages.

(Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 414)