Office of the Exchequer

Office of the Exchequer

Actually a set of offices, including the Office of the Lord High Treasurer, this busy main room held desks for several clerks and then a private office for Sir John Ernle, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Windows along one wall gave much needed light for those working over ledgers for long hours. The room itself was scarcely decorated, the walls panelled and then whitewashed for maximum light. Portraits of notable past Lords of the Exchequer were all that decorated the otherwise bland walls. Three doors let off from this main chamber: two to the left and one to the right.

There was, notably, nowhere for a visitor to sit.