. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. atstrength, having walls on the ground floor about 10 feet thick, with threevaulted floors, as shown on Section (Fig. 78). It is still inhabited and inperfect order; and although considerably modernised both externally andinternally, it presents the characteristics of a Scottish keep of the end ofthe fourteenth century or of the beginning of the fifteenth, although theexact date of its erection seems not to be known. The ground floor has CLOSEBURN CASTLE — 129 SECOND PERIOD no communication wit
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. atstrength, having walls on the ground floor about 10 feet thick, with threevaulted floors, as shown on Section (Fig. 78). It is still inhabited and inperfect order; and although considerably modernised both externally andinternally, it presents the characteristics of a Scottish keep of the end ofthe fourteenth century or of the beginning of the fifteenth, although theexact date of its erection seems not to be known. The ground floor has CLOSEBURN CASTLE — 129 SECOND PERIOD no communication with the upper floors. These were reached by a dooron the first floor level about 10 feet above the ground. This door issplayed and has a round arch, and is protected by an iron yett, still inposition. The walls of the upper floors ai^e about 7 feet 6 inches thick,and the internal space is divided into two chambers by a wall about 3 feetthick. Probably this wall, although old, is not part of the original struc-ture, as in castles of this kind the hall usually occupied the whole of thefirst
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