Room for towels, linens and jugs

• Room in an old English mansion
• Linen closet
• Room for pitchers
• Room for jugs and linens
• Room for jugs, linens, etc.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical UK English) An office or place of household service where the ewers were kept.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ewery \Ew"er*y\ ([=u]"[~e]r*[y^]), Ewry \Ew"ry\ ([=u]"r[y^])n. An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] --Parker.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A ewery was the office in a medieval household responsible for water and the vessels for drinking or washing of the person. The word comes from "ewer", a sort of pitcher . This office was not responsible for laundry, which was handled by the offices of ...