The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . r windows are the initialsJ. R. and A. L., with the date 1671. In the corresponding place on thesecond floor are the initials I. N. and A. R., and in the centre pedimentthe inscription sol-dei-glor, while over the first floor windows are theinscriptions— ARBOR VITiE SAPIENTIS—MURUS, CONSCIENTIA. The house on the right hand of the Sketch probably dates from earlyin the eighteenth century, and shows, after the manner of the period, awall-head cornice, instead of the earlier form of a
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . r windows are the initialsJ. R. and A. L., with the date 1671. In the corresponding place on thesecond floor are the initials I. N. and A. R., and in the centre pedimentthe inscription sol-dei-glor, while over the first floor windows are theinscriptions— ARBOR VITiE SAPIENTIS—MURUS, CONSCIENTIA. The house on the right hand of the Sketch probably dates from earlyin the eighteenth century, and shows, after the manner of the period, awall-head cornice, instead of the earlier form of a street gable. Fig. 1117 represents the lower corner of Broad Street and a windinglane leading northwards. The house on the right is a large five-storiedtenement, dating probably from the end of the seventeenth or the begin-ning of the eighteenth century, and appears to occupy the site of some * See Vol. n. p. 417. FOURTH PERIOD — 16 — HOUSES IN BROAD STREET old Scottish mansion, the staircase tower of which has been preserved andis joined on to the more modern building seen in the View,. Pig. 1116. —Houses in Broad Street. A little further down the same lane occurs the doorway shown inFig. 1118. It is the entrance to what is now a very plain house inhabited STIRLING 17 — FOURTH PERIOD by working people. The doorway probably dates from the end of theseventeenth century. The Sketch (Fig. 1119) shows a tumble-down looking dormer windowprojecting through the roof of an old house in Broad Street. The design
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