 This improved privacy and kept cooking smells, noise, and any other indelicacies of the lower classes away from their more cultivated employers, thus allowing the great hall and its adjoining rooms to be more tastefully decorated and specifically employed.However it was essential that servants were close at hand, and so they were given their own specific floors, usually the lowest and the highest.These floors were often, as at Belton, distinguished by a different fenestration from the rooms of the employers in between.