The doorway to the monks' day-stairs, cupboard and entrance to the warming-room at Fountains occupy the eastern end of the S wall of the cloister. The stairs led up to the monks' dormitory on the E side of the cloister. Today, with the dormitory long gone, it provides a view of the north side of the valley where the caves or quarries were, used by the first monks. See Gilyard-Beer 1970, 51-54.

For further information, see report for Fountains Abbey, church.

For History, see report for Fountains Abbey, church.

The day-stairs and warming-room are dated to the latest phase (1180-1210) of the four periods according to the plan in Gilyard-Beer 1970.

In the rebuilding of the S range of the cloister in the time of abbot Robert (1170-80), this was the first part to be developed. The building was three storeys high; the room above the warming room proper was a muniment store, as was probably also the upper floor (Coppack 2009, 65-6; fig. 40).