Manor House Pantry Design

DORSET

This bespoke pantry design for a Jacobean manor house in Dorset makes use of an existing unused cupboard area close to the kitchen. It is situated in a narrow corridor between the kitchen and the boot room, and has the added benefit of a window.

Creating a pantry design can come with a new set of challenges. Often the space is very small, dark and can be difficult to access. We have to be creative in the way that we approach the design to ensure that we make the most of the space, ensuring that it links back to the main kitchen.

An open shelf with baskets in a Manor House pantry design

DESIGN FEATURES FOR A MANOR HOUSE PANTRY

Open Shelving

With a combination of oak and stone shelves the pantry design is both useful and practical. The temperature remains cool enough to keep hams on the bone and root vegetables in baskets, offering a good selection of storage solutions.

Pantries with stone shelves allow food to be kept at a moderate temperature. While the traditional style oak shelves are deep enough to hold a good quantity of tinned and dried essentials and ingredients.

Sliding glazed doors create a division between the other back of house rooms

Sliding glazed doors create a division between the pantry and other back of house rooms

DESIGN FEATURES OF A MANOR HOUSE PANTRY

Sliding Doors

The pantry overlooks a courtyard to the rear of the Manor House and has the added benefit of a small window.

To maximise the natural light from this window Nick then designed the pantry door with glazed panels to allow light to fall through further from this window to the hallway beyond.

A sliding door mechanism was also chosen so that doorway does not to obstruct the hallway.