The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . w courtyard, andshows a remarkably bold piece of corbelling supporting a round turrethanging over the archway of the pend leading to the street. Fig. 1150is a sketch in a large courtyard of a portion of buildings now used inconnection with the fishing industry. It seems to have been a houseof considerable importance, and one of the structures facing the court- FIFESHIRE — 43 FOURTH PERIOD yard, but not sketched, was, itis believed, a chapel. AUCHTERMUCHTY, FlFESHIRE. There is here a long narrowb
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . w courtyard, andshows a remarkably bold piece of corbelling supporting a round turrethanging over the archway of the pend leading to the street. Fig. 1150is a sketch in a large courtyard of a portion of buildings now used inconnection with the fishing industry. It seems to have been a houseof considerable importance, and one of the structures facing the court- FIFESHIRE — 43 FOURTH PERIOD yard, but not sketched, was, itis believed, a chapel. AUCHTERMUCHTY, FlFESHIRE. There is here a long narrowbuilding (Fig. 1151), now fallinginto a state of ruin. The win-dows and doorways have well-moulded jambs of good work-manship of seventeenth centurydesign. A panel in the gablefor a coat of arms, along withthe arched entrance gateway tothe courtyard, crowned with asundial, indicate that it was likelythe residence of some one of im-portance in his day, and the olddovecot a few yards distant fromthe house rather confirms the present roof is of thatch, andprobably in this respect follows. Fig. 1150.—Aiistruther, Old House in.
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