The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fio. 1197. —Aberdeen. The Palace. =^? 1198.— FRASERBURGH. Fig. 1198 is a Sketch of a simple door-way of a kind often found in seventeenth-century buildings. It occurs in an other-wise quite featureless house. In the tym-panum are the initials P. D. and P. R.,with the device of an anchor above, andthe date 1718. Tlie View seen in Fig. 1199 is inter-esting as showing a survival till theeighteenth century of the style of earlyScottish houses with enclosed
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fio. 1197. —Aberdeen. The Palace. =^? 1198.— FRASERBURGH. Fig. 1198 is a Sketch of a simple door-way of a kind often found in seventeenth-century buildings. It occurs in an other-wise quite featureless house. In the tym-panum are the initials P. D. and P. R.,with the device of an anchor above, andthe date 1718. Tlie View seen in Fig. 1199 is inter-esting as showing a survival till theeighteenth century of the style of earlyScottish houses with enclosed panel over the arched gateway con-tains the initials P. G. and B. S., with thedate 1746, and the house on the righthand is dated 1749. Prolmbly the risingof 1745 left an impression of insecurity HOUSES IN BANFF 83 FOURTH PERIOD on the minds of the builders, causing them to fall back on the old planof house building with a strong wall of defence, having one protectedgateway only opening to the outside.
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