The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fin. 1110.—House in Broafl Street. Dornier Window. MARS WARK, Stirling. .This stately house is now reduced to the front wall, the whole interiorbeing entirely demolished and the ground plan obliterated. There is apopular belief that there never was much more of the building erected thannow exists; but this does not agree with the impression which Sir RobertSibbald gives his readers. He speaks of its large rooms and their com-manding views, giving one the idea that he had been through the
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fin. 1110.—House in Broafl Street. Dornier Window. MARS WARK, Stirling. .This stately house is now reduced to the front wall, the whole interiorbeing entirely demolished and the ground plan obliterated. There is apopular belief that there never was much more of the building erected thannow exists; but this does not agree with the impression which Sir RobertSibbald gives his readers. He speaks of its large rooms and their com-manding views, giving one the idea that he had been through the only does the structure appear to have been finished, but it evidentlyremained tenantable down to last century, as in 1715* there is an itemin the Ijurgh records for sixty dealls and some trees gotten to repairMars house to lodge souldiers of the armie in; and again in 1717 thereare further repairs; and as late as 1733 the council are content to take a* Extracts from the Records of the Bimjh of Stirling. STIRLING 19 — FOUIITH PI>;iUOD. .^4 \ I \^^ ^mM * IM-mM , -ij i.:,: Jl.! n ^^14^ ^,^5,^^li«M^^^ ^
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