very small · attic floor · last known use unknown
the ceiling is no higher than five and a half feet, and shows the underside of the beams of the floor above. the beams are smoke-dark and joined with wooden pegs. the floor is the same width as the room. a grown person stands at a stoop, and after a moment forgets they are stooping.
there is no window. there is a single iron hook in the centre beam, blackened, with nothing on it. the door is half the height of a usual door and the keeper has bumped their forehead on its lintel three times.
the keeper supposes the room was a place to store smoked things, or to sleep in if one were small. the smell is of old wood, faintly of pitch, and not unpleasant.
field-note: it is the only room in the building where one hears the rain on the roof as if from inside the rain.