How does Thomas Ledbury describe his home in Gloucester?

Thomas Ledbury describes his family's home in Gloucester as: one [room] up, one down, and his mother smoking her herrings, the chickens and hens strutting in and out of the door as if they owned the place, and all his brothers and sisters tumbling around, the big ones in charge of the little ones, each with their tasks, and his father with shirt sleeves rolled above his elbows and bibbed apron, hammering and sawing, and the geese honking demandingly, the pig snuffling in its box out in the yard and a cow tethered to the shed. That was his home.