I’m currently designing a keep for my players to explore. It will be a ruined keep, taken over by an evil cult. But to start off the design, I am looking at how it would have been designed in its prime. Here are some rooms I’ve thought of when creating the layout.

Military function

  • Armory
  • Smithy
  • Fletcher
  • Training room
  • Lookout posts
  • Infirmary/Hospital wing
  • Gatehouse
  • Barbican
  • Place of Arms
  • Commander quarters
  • Guard bunks

Every day operation

  • Great hall (mess hall)
  • Steward’s Office
  • Clerks/Tax assessors/Scribes Office
  • Kitchen
  • Distillery
  • Scullery
  • Larder/Storeroom/Cellar/Ice House
  • Servant quarters
  • Bathroom
  • Well/Cistern
  • Dovecote
  • Stables
  • Kennels
  • Courtyard
  • Gardens

Political function

  • Hall of Justice
  • Dungeon/Prison/Oubliette/Tower
  • Throne Room
  • Vault/Treasury

Noble quarters

  • Drawing Room
  • Bower
  • Rooms for the Lord/Lady
  • Formal sitting room
  • Informal sitting room
  • Private study
  • Personal library
  • Private dining room

Research

  • Library
  • Alchemy lab
  • Solarium
  • Wizards quarters

Religious

  • Temple/Church
  • Clergy quarters

Can you think of some more?


Editing to add the suggestions from the comments.

  • Basilisk
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    May or may not be an actual room in a castle, but there’s often going to be one or multiple cesspits. This could literally be simply a pit under a garderobe/bathroom or it could be a walled and enclosed space, but if present it would be serviced regularly by gong farmers.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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      More detail: The cesspits will usually be placed outside the walls (and away from the water storage) of the castle and the garderobes were often placed in the outer walls with a shaft leading to the outside of the castle.