CARNOCK 



STIRLINGSHIRE 



T would be difficult, if not impossible, 

 to find a more characteristic example 

 of Scottish domestic architecture of 

 the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 



than that presented in the old house 



of Carnock. Originally built in 1548 by Sir Robert 

 Drummond, whose arms and initials, with those of 

 his wife, Margaret Elphinstone of Dunmore, still 

 remain over the principal entrance, it was added 

 to in 1634 when the property was acquired by Sir 

 Thomas Nicolson, and remains unchanged in its 

 main features, though outbuildings and offices have 

 been erected to adapt the dwelling to the require- 

 ments of a modern household. 



"What a distance," observed Messrs. M'Gibbon and Boss, 

 "has been travelled over in the three centuries which have 

 elapsed from the time when Scottish nobles were content to 

 live in towers containing three apartments only a ground 

 floor for cattle, a first floor for a hall in which the retainers 

 lived and slept, and a top storey for the lord and his family! 

 The introduction of a kitchen was at first hailed as an im- 



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