This is how Robert Smythson provided it for her. He put the kitchen, the servants' rooms and the children in low rooms on the ground floor, above cellars; Bess, the family and less important guests in higher ceilinged rooms on the first floor, and the grand apartments in immensely high rooms on the second floor. Basically, he fitted all this into a long rectangle, two rooms thick. But he ran his entrance hall across the middle of this rectangle, from front to back, and made it two storeys high. The result would have been a simple rectangular block, if Smythson had not embellished it with six rectangular towers, as follows: two towers on the entrance front, each close to a corner; two towers in the same position on the back; and one tower in the middle of each end. The towers are identical, and each is carried up a storey above the rest of the house. The roof is flat, and designed for walking on, and admiring the view.