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 487
d,Provost of Edinburgh in 1638. Some of the features appear to be ofabout the latter date. FOURTH PERIOD — 170 — HOUSES TOP OP MOUND HOUSES TOP OF MOUND. Fig. 1052 exhibits the picturesque termination of one of the loftystructures raised high in the air during the seventeenth century to pro-vide… … Fig. 1052.—Houses Top of Mound. but owing to the slope of the ground, it is four stories high as seen fromMilnes Court (ofi the High Street) on the south. The lofty crow-steppedgablets and chimneys of the attic floors are here prominent and charac-teiistic features. One flat in this tenement was…
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