The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Douglases held them, with the fortalice, mill, &c., for over threehundred years, till the middle of the seventeenth century, when they We have to thank Mr. J. D. Robertou for the drawings and description of thisedifice. EDMONSTON CASTLE — 269 — FOURTH PERIOD were sold by the then earl to Baillie of Walston. At the beginning of theeighteenth century the estate was acquired by a Laurence Brown, who diedat the age of ninety-two, and with his descendants it remained till 1867,when it was b
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Douglases held them, with the fortalice, mill, &c., for over threehundred years, till the middle of the seventeenth century, when they We have to thank Mr. J. D. Robertou for the drawings and description of thisedifice. EDMONSTON CASTLE — 269 — FOURTH PERIOD were sold by the then earl to Baillie of Walston. At the beginning of theeighteenth century the estate was acquired by a Laurence Brown, who diedat the age of ninety-two, and with his descendants it remained till 1867,when it was bought by W. A. Woddrop of Ellsrickle and Dalmarnock. The tower (Fig. 1379), which measures 26 feet by 20 feet 6 inches, andis three stories high, is a small one, and was built probably about 1500 (orfifty yeaiS earlier). It is peculiar in having the stair contained in a roundturret projecting from an angle, instead of rising in the thickness of thewalls; but all the other features are the same as those of towers of theabove period. The outer door gives access to a small lobby or passage. GI^OUND FLOOR Fig. 1379.—Edmonstort Castle. Plans. which leads to the stair. In this passage there is a small slit or spy-holecommunicating with the vaulted cellar, which is entered by a door facingthe entrance. The ground floor contains the usual vaulted cellar or room,which has a shot-hole in the wall opposite the door, and a small windowhigh up in one of the end walls. The stair leads first to the hall, which occupies the whole of the firstfloor, and was also entered direct from the outside by a door above theone at the ground level. The hall has a window looking out to the gateof the courtyard, two in the south-east wall, and a small cupboard in thesouth-west wall. In this wall was the fireplace, which, though not fine or FOURTH PERIOD 270 EDMONSTON CASTLE large, had good jambs. One of tliese fell in the winter of 1889-90 fromthe effects of the weather. The stair continues to the uppe
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