The room now looks rather bare. It originally had four fixed bookcases which were removed by the Manor House Special Case Hospital who also painted much of the mahogany woodwork in this room white.The fireplace surround in this room was painted white in the photograph below. It was actually mahogany and painted white along with rest of woodwork by Manor House Special Care Hospital - it was . It was removed by Armagh Council in 1996 and put in Armagh Gaol for safekeeping- from where it was stolen.
The room also contains ceiling cornice by Rudolph Steiner. The lighting effect in this room would originally have been even more daunting to visitors with a chandelier hanging from the central ceiling rose surrounded by drop lights hanging from the surrounding cornice.
The 1940 inventory of Manor House School lists the contents as:
2 tables, 9 chairs, 3easy chairs, 1 Lloyd loom chair, steps, blackboard, easel, card table, wireless, gramophone, 1drop light, 1bulb, 1 bowl, 4bookcases (fixed), rug, fender, fire irons, 1 picute, 2silver cups, 6 curtains, 1 waste paper basket
