Image: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887) (14595647607)

Description: Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (find matches) Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century Year: 1887 (1880s) Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: s and requirements, but before carrying-out the works Mr. Heiton, the architect, made very careful plans of theold building, and through his kindness we are enabled to reproduce hismeasured drawings, and thus preserve a minute record of a very interest-ing old Scottish mansion-house. The castle is situated about three miles north-west from Dunblane.It was surrounded with enclosing walls, as is shown by the Sketch,Fig. 1414.t The structure is of the L Plan (Fig. 1415), and the mainbuilding is three stories high, with entresol floors in the north wing(Fig. 1416). There was only one staircase for the whole house, whichwas situated in the north-east corner of the wing, and was so placedas to serve the various floors with considerable efliciency. Ihere was * See Gregorys Wc8te7-)i Highlands and Isles. t This sketch is copied from a watercolour drawing made by James Drummond,R.S.A., in 1861, and the use of which was kindly obtained for us by Mr. Heiton. KILBRYDE CASTLE — 301 FOURTH PERIOD Text Appearing After Image: FOURTH PERIOD 302 — KILBRYDE CASTLE also only one entrance door at the foot of the staircase, as was usualin the seventeenth century. It conducted directly into the ground floor, •1 KlTCf^E:N j H ■ I^HHI ^^t ■ l—I V^^H ^ PASSASE 1^ ^^ ^^ ■ ■■—-Jitoi A^ii Mm i ^H IH 6F ^OL JND FLOOR li /5b ■ Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887) (14595647607)
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