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partitioned off as a separate chamber. One small cupboard has 
a little window to the outside, and may have been a place for 
keeping victuals in. This hall was probably used as a kitchen 
and servants’ hall. The second floor contains the more im- 
portant upper hall or proprietor’s living room, having windows on 
all sides, some of them provided with stone seats in the ingoings. 
There are also a garde-robe and almouries in the thickness of 
the walls. This room is only 22 feet by 21 feet. Above the first 
floor the staircase is carried up in a circular turret, corbelled out 
from the square angle, about seven feet from the ground. Over 
the corbelling there is a door by which access could be obtained 
to the tower without opening the strong doors and defences of 
the lower doorway. This door would probably also be con- 
nected with the enclosing wall of the courtyard. The way in 
which the outer circle of the stair turret is managed shows a 
little straining after effect. The third floor was evidently the 
proprietor’s family bedroom. There is access from it by a few 
steps to the angle turrets at three of the angles. The form of 
these is unusual, from their being composed of a corbelled pro- 
jection, partly circular and partly square. Each turret is pro- 
vided with shot-holes, so that the face of the walls is protected 
on all sides. Above this floor the stair turret is made square 
in plan, and is overhung in a very extraordinary manner, the 
whole turret being very skilfully corbelled out from and balanced 
on the plain square angle of the ground floor. Above the third 
floor there is an attic room of the same dimensions. A small 
corbelled turret in the angle of the main staircase contains a very 
narrow stair to the attic floor and to two rooms (one above the 
other) immediately over the main staircase. These rooms are 
9 feet by 8 feet. Still higher than this, and overhung and 
balanced on the apex of the gable, are two stories, and a still 
smaller stair than the last leading to the “ cape-house ”’ or watch- 
tower, about 6 feet by 5 feet, forming the highest point of the 
building. Altogether this building affords a fine and telling 
example of the love of corbelling so prevalent in the fourth 
period of Scottish architecture. The windows are much more 
enriched than usual, and the enrichments all show the tendency, 
then so common, of reverting to the early types. Round the 
windows we find the dog tooth; the top of the tower shows the 
billet and cable, while the projecting dormer has the cable and 
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