Knightsbridge Living
Ground floor
In early Georgian times it was normal for the ground floor to be for services and servants' accommodation and the first floor was the main floor or piano nobile. But in the Regency period the ground floor became the main family floor.
The ground storey contained the dining-room, at the side of a narrow entrance hall, and behind it a smaller parlour or morning-room. The dining-room might be a little deeper than the front rooms on the upper floors and was sometimes finished with a sideboard recess at its inner end. The rear parlour was usually narrower than the dining—room in order to accommodate the extra width of the stairs at the end of the hail.
