Scullery

"Her way lay by the chapel, and as she crept past it, meaning to slip in through the scullery, and groping her way, for the dark had fallen and the moon was scarce up, she heard a crash close behind her, as though someone had dropped from a window of the chapel."[1]

The scullery is a small room next to the kitchen in certain older style houses where dishes or laundry are washed.[2] Sculleries are not typically found in modern homes but rather are a relic of a time when servants needed to care for the household in a way that required an extra room or the cleaning with water and soap.

[1] Wharton 1901, p. 11

[2] see Hornby 2019, Nr. 13