I searched through the photo archives and eventually found a shot of an open hall fire in action, just as it was started up on a late winters afternoon.
This hall is in North Cray at Singleton and shows the centrally positioned hearth and the hall mullion windows & shuters (lower open upper closed) which can maybe be seen more clearly from outside the building.
The draught across the fire is quite dramatic with rising sparks leaving a photographic trail pointing towards the hall door which had been left open to help clear the start up smoke.
