Definition of "cookroom"

[…] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.

1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553

[…] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.

c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service