The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1363.—Corston Tower. View from Soutli-West. Bute. The tower was three full stories high, with a story in the roof,and a watch-tower placed in the usual way over the staircase, whichoccupied the south-west corner. The ground floor only was joists of the upper floors, which existedtill recently, were of black oak, and the roofwas covered with heavy pavement slabs. Onthe second floor a garde-robe still exists at thenorth-east corner, with an exit at the groundlevel. There were outb
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1363.—Corston Tower. View from Soutli-West. Bute. The tower was three full stories high, with a story in the roof,and a watch-tower placed in the usual way over the staircase, whichoccupied the south-west corner. The ground floor only was joists of the upper floors, which existedtill recently, were of black oak, and the roofwas covered with heavy pavement slabs. Onthe second floor a garde-robe still exists at thenorth-east corner, with an exit at the groundlevel. There were outbuildings connected withthe castle on the west side, of which traces offoundations remain. The kitchen was a de-tached one-story building, somewhat like thatat Kinnaird Castle, Carse of Gowrie ; it stoodat the south-west corner. The garden, which extended to about three-quarters of a Scotch acre, lay mostly to the south-east, ihese adjuncts have all been swept away, and only the fragmentof a dovecot remains, situated about twenty yards to the north, on thebanks of the Fig. FOURTH PERIOD — 254 CRICHTON HOUSE In the fifteenth century Corston belonged to John Ramsay, who wasdescended from the house of Carnock. His son, Sir John of Corston,received from James iii. the barony and lordship of Bothwell, with thetitle of Lord Bothwell, the lands and dignity being confirmed byParliament in 1483. The lands of Corston remained in the possession ofthe Ramsays till about 1669, when they passed into the hands of a familynamed Colquhoun. The tower was probably built in the seventeenthcentury. CRICHTON HOUSE, Midlothian. This is a simple mansion of the L Plan, which stands not far from thewell-known castle of the same name. It is evidently a structure of theseventeenth century, erected after the angle turrets and all other symbols
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