The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1243.—Town House, Irvine. View from North-West.* We are indebted to Mr. Railton for the Plans of and notes regarding this building FOURTH PERIOD 126 — TOWN HOUSE, IRVINE. Fig. 1244.—Town House, of Ground Floor and First Floor. the eighteenth century, after all the features of the native style had dis-appeared. The outside of the court-house was renovated in 1740-45, afterbeing much injured by lightning. Till 1808 the tower had a slated roof, and the vane was a weather-cock. The
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1243.—Town House, Irvine. View from North-West.* We are indebted to Mr. Railton for the Plans of and notes regarding this building FOURTH PERIOD 126 — TOWN HOUSE, IRVINE. Fig. 1244.—Town House, of Ground Floor and First Floor. the eighteenth century, after all the features of the native style had dis-appeared. The outside of the court-house was renovated in 1740-45, afterbeing much injured by lightning. Till 1808 the tower had a slated roof, and the vane was a weather-cock. The stone spire andvane were then whole structure wastaken down in 1860. The Plans (Fig. 1244)are interesting, as showingthe arrangement of thetown house of the civic edifice still com-bined the functions of coun-cil chambers and jail. Theground floor, with its Ionicportico, contained the townhall and the oflices of thetown clerk, while the upperfloor, entering by the tower, comprised the debtors chamber and the cellsfor criminals. The whole building was of the most substantial masonry, the wallsbeing four feet in thickness, and the roofs orceilings of the lower rooms strongly archedor vaulted, as were also the cells of thedebtors prison, which
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