. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. Fig. 130.—Penkill Castle, from South-East. * For the Plans and View of this structure we are indebted to Alexander GeorgeThomson, Esq., architect, (Jlasgow, by whom they were made in 1857, when he wasemployed by the late Spencer Boyd, Esq. of Penkill, to restore the castle. PENKILL CASTLE — 205 — THIRD PERIOD restoration in 1857 it was a deserted ruin, as shown by Sketcli (Fig. 139).The oldest part of the building was fairly well preserved, having its roofentire. It consisted (Fig. 140) of a sq
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. Fig. 130.—Penkill Castle, from South-East. * For the Plans and View of this structure we are indebted to Alexander GeorgeThomson, Esq., architect, (Jlasgow, by whom they were made in 1857, when he wasemployed by the late Spencer Boyd, Esq. of Penkill, to restore the castle. PENKILL CASTLE — 205 — THIRD PERIOD restoration in 1857 it was a deserted ruin, as shown by Sketcli (Fig. 139).The oldest part of the building was fairly well preserved, having its roofentire. It consisted (Fig. 140) of a square keep, measuring about 26 feet6 inches by 21 feet 6 inches, and was about 34 feet high to the top of thewalls, with a round tower at the north-east corner, which contained the. Fifi, 140.—Pciikill Castlo. Plans and Section. entrance doorway and stair to the upper floors. The stair was, however,in a complete state of ruin. The groiuid floor was vaulted and lighted bynarrow slits in each wall. The first floor and all the other floors containedone apartment, the former with a large fireplace and ambiy beside it. Inthe north-west corner there seems to have been a garde-robe afterwards THIRD PERIOD — 206 CASTLE. AILSA CRAIG slapped through, so as to form a communication to a later addition. Thesecond floor had a plain fireplace, with an arched window containing stoneseats. The floor above was lighted by a fine dormer window on the eastfront, shown in Fig. 139, and from this floor two round turrets, one onthe north-west and the other on the south-east corner of the keep, wereentered. An addition to the castle was built in the seventeenth centuryalong the north end, and consisted of a building of unknown length fromeast to west, by about 20 feet in width. The w
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