Great Hall

Very little remains of the Great Hall which was the largest and most important secular structure on the island. used for feasting and social entertainment. It was well built, mortared, the lower courses of the walls built wide for support, forming an impressive hall with a large fireplace and slate roof. The doorway is of considerable interest archaeologically with nonmatching jamb stones of carved sandstone suggesting reconstruction of the original building.

After the hall fell out of use as a roofed structure, it was massively robbed of stonework. This was no gradual process but an organised dismantling of the complete structure.