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

MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 502

An illustration from The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, 1887, leaf 502 — r has a garde-robe enter-ing off it. These turrets are well lighted, and have shot-holes beneatheach window. The newel of the winding staircase is not perpendicular,and on a very short height it diverges some two or three feet nearthe top. The keep has been altered when the additions were erected,… … Fig. 916.—Aldie Castle. Old Chair. Not long after the erection of this tower the addition shown byhatched lines was made along its south side, with the effect of increasingits accommodation threefold, and rendering it a house which would makea good residence even now. From the small couityard…

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