Crai^millar and its Environs. 



and woodwork. These features, with the hearty ap- 

 proval and co-operation of the proprietor, have been 

 gradually brought to light by the present tenant, Mr 

 Godfrey G. Cunninghame, and the house now appears 

 much as it may have done in its palmy days, while 

 still the country residence of the family who owned 

 it. Very interesting to the antiquarian are the great 

 fireplaces, as well as the " squints," " shutter-board" 

 windows, and other curious arrangements for defence 

 or for guarding against sudden surprise — the latter 

 especially being a very necessary provision in those 

 troublous times. The doorways, framed in hammer- 

 nigged stone of the hardest grain, and the quaint 

 specimens of iron-work, are all preserved in their 

 ancient form, visibly connecting the present with the 

 past. The illustration presents one of the salient 

 features of the western elevation, a rectangular turret 

 boldly corbelled out from the circular staircase which 

 it surmounts, and terminating in a crow-stepped gable 

 of acute pitch. 



William Little, who built Liberton House, had 

 no family, and when he died in 1686 the estate was 



