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The warming house yard extends southwards to the river, shut in on one side by the refectory and on the other by the dormitory undercroft against which there was a narrow building, now much ruined. This building was once vaulted in two bays, and had two large archways to the yard that were later blocked. It probably served as a wood store for the warming house fires. Midway along the south wall of the building are the massive corbels of a privy discharging into the river from a room that once existed on the first floor.

The west side of the yard was covered by a pentise along the refectory wall, and from the south end of this a wooden footbridge, supported on the cutwater at the south-east angle of the refectory, once crossed the river, enabling fuel to be brought into the yard without going through the cloister.