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
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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
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