The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1365.—Crichton House. View from South-West. of the castle had been abandoned, and is a good example of a plain Scottishhouse (Fig. 1365), built on one of the traditional plans, and retaining onlythe features required at the period. Over the entrance doorway is inserteda small window to light the entrance lobby and staircase, and above it is apanel, which doubtless once contained the proprietors ai-ms. The buildingis now occupied as a farm-house. CULCREUCH _ 255 FOURTH PERIOD CULCREUCH,* Sti
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1365.—Crichton House. View from South-West. of the castle had been abandoned, and is a good example of a plain Scottishhouse (Fig. 1365), built on one of the traditional plans, and retaining onlythe features required at the period. Over the entrance doorway is inserteda small window to light the entrance lobby and staircase, and above it is apanel, which doubtless once contained the proprietors ai-ms. The buildingis now occupied as a farm-house. CULCREUCH _ 255 FOURTH PERIOD CULCREUCH,* Stirlingshire. This old tower stands at the base of the Fintry Hills, in the EndrickValley, at a distance of about eight miles from Kippen Railway consists of a sixteenth century keep (Fig. 1366), still in perfect preserva-tion, and inhabited, together with a large addition on the east and north. Fig. 1366.—Culcreuch. View from South-West. sides (see View), made probably at the end of the seventeenth the time when this was erected, various alterations were necessarilymade on the keep, such as opening doors of communication between theold and new buildings, closing up doors, windows, and slits, and enlargingthose that were left in the older structure. The old staircase was entirelyremoved, and all trace of it obliterated, a handsome scale and platt stairin the new building supplying its place. * We are indebted to Mr. James D. Roberton for bringing this castle under ournotice, and for the plans and descriptive notes regarding it. FOURTH PERIOD — 256 ~ CULCREUCH The keep (Fig. 1367) measures 41 feet long by 28 feet 9 inches broad,and is four stories high. The height to the top of the gabled roof isabout 47 feet.
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