36 m2 in the outer half of the east band, directly behind The Long Table, opening into it through a wide opening rather than a door. £80,000 to £160,000 of bespoke joinery, appliances and stone.

It is the only principal room in the building without a shopfront, and that is the decision rather than an oversight. What the square sees through shopfront 2 is a table laid and people at it. The prep, the mess and the extraction happen four metres further back, out of the sightline.

what that costs

It takes the dining room's outward window. The kitchen occupies the outer 4 m of the ring, so it is the kitchen that reaches the east wall and gets the one window on that elevation. The long table takes all of its light from the square, under nine metres of sky, on the east side of a courtyard.

That is survivable and it is worth knowing about. The dining room will be a good room on a summer evening with the front folded back, and a dim one at four o'clock in January.

the practical run

Deliveries come through the arch, across the square, or round through the hall in the north east corner, which is 8 m away through the back hall. The general store, which is where the bulk of it goes, is at the other end of the east band, past the dining room.

That is a long way to carry a case of wine, and it is the one circulation problem the ring geometry creates that the plan has not solved. Moving the stores to the north east corner and the hall to the south would fix it, and would cost the stores its shopfront, which is not a trade worth making.