The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . FIG. Saughtou House. Interior of Dining-Koom. n,akeshift, and it had probably a parapet or balustrade ^r P-otec^^^^^Old Saughton being situated in an extensive plain in the h.„liway — 340 — OLD SAUGHTON HOUSE FOURTH PERIOD between Edinburgh and the West, it was doubtless desirable ^o ^^-^ ^ ^^^point of vantage, such as this turret, wh>ch to observe the count yP have had a courtyard attached to it, like most of The house appears to. Fio. Saughtou House. Interior
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . FIG. Saughtou House. Interior of Dining-Koom. n,akeshift, and it had probably a parapet or balustrade ^r P-otec^^^^^Old Saughton being situated in an extensive plain in the h.„liway — 340 — OLD SAUGHTON HOUSE FOURTH PERIOD between Edinburgh and the West, it was doubtless desirable ^o ^^-^ ^ ^^^point of vantage, such as this turret, wh>ch to observe the count yP have had a courtyard attached to it, like most of The house appears to. Fio. Saughtou House. Interior of Ante-Drawing Room. our old houses, and the finely-built well, which still exists a little to thesouth-east, would lie within the enclosure. The lands of Saughton were in the possession of the Watsons from1537, passing from father to son in the direct line till 1837, when one OTTERSTON AND COUSTON — 341 FOURTH PERIOD brother succeeded another, and the estate passed to a sister, who marriedLord Aberdour, afterwards Earl of Morton, and to their son, the presentEarl of Morton, Saughton now belongs. OTTERSTON AND COUSTON CASTLES,* Fifeshire. Otterston is situated in the parish of Dalgetty, about two miles north-east from Inverkeithing. It occupies a secluded position on the margin
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