. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 3-5 0 10 20 30 40ft m\m \ i \ \— Fig. irs.—Braces Castle. Plan. probably contained a straight staircase to the first floor. From the detailsof a fireplace preserved in the south and only remaining wall (Fig. 178), itseems to be a structure of the Third Period ; but its history is elliptic arch over the doorway recalls those of Doune, ARNOT TOWER, Kinross-shire. A tower situated in the parish of Portmoak, about one and a half mileseast of the village of Scotlandwell, and three miles
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 3-5 0 10 20 30 40ft m\m \ i \ \— Fig. irs.—Braces Castle. Plan. probably contained a straight staircase to the first floor. From the detailsof a fireplace preserved in the south and only remaining wall (Fig. 178), itseems to be a structure of the Third Period ; but its history is elliptic arch over the doorway recalls those of Doune, ARNOT TOWER, Kinross-shire. A tower situated in the parish of Portmoak, about one and a half mileseast of the village of Scotlandwell, and three miles west of the town of THIRD PERIOD 246 — ARNOT TOWER Leslie in Fife. It stands on the southern slope of the Lomond Hills, on asmall knoll overlooking the River Leven as it issues from Loch Leven, andclose to a modern mansion-house. It is a small rectangular building (), about 31 feet by 24 feet, and has had a courtyard on the south, one. Fio. 179.—Ainot Tower. Plan, wall of which remains. The tower has been very substantially constructed(Fig. 180), the walls being about 6 feet 6 inches thick, and built withcoursed ashlar. The ground floor has been vaulted, and the inside facingof the walls of that floor has also been of ashlar. All the floors are gone,
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