A pantry may contain a , a term used in Derbyshire and Yorkshire to denote a stone slab or shelf used to keep food cool in the days before refrigeration was domestically available. In a late medieval hall, a thrawl would have been appropriate to a larder. In a large or moderately large 19th-century house, all these rooms would have been placed in the lowest—and/or as convenient—possible location in the building to use the mass of the ground to retain a low summer temperature. For this reason, a buttery was usually called the cellar by this stage.