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Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
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ure is much ruined. ^iirg p 1 w^m ► M I I I I I I Fig. 143.—Carleton Castle. Plan of Ground Floor. the south-east angle having entirely fallen out and the parapet being gone,so that the architectural interest of the building is comparatively slight. The walls are 6 feet in thickness. The entrance door was probably atthe south-east angle and at the level of the hall floor, into which it wouldgive direct access. On one side of the entrance passage a narrow stair(which still survives) led down to the cellar, and on the other a wheel-stair in the south-east angle (now demolished) led to the upper floors androof. There were separate stories in the vaults over the basement andhall, so that the tower was at least five floors in height. Some tracesstill exist of a wall enclosing a courtyard on the tongue of land betweentwo burns, on which the tower .stands, with vestiges of towers at theangles. * Patersons History of Ayr and Wigton, Vol. ir. p. 135. THIRD PERIOD — 210 — LOCHNAW CASTLE
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Fio. 144.—Caileton Castle, from Soulli-East. LOCHNAW CASTLE, Wigtonshire. This castle is situated iii the parish of Leswalt, on a small fresh-water loch about five miles west from Stranraer. The locality is one ofconsiderable beauty, and the utmost has been done to develop thenatural features of the scene, so that the surroundings of the castle are ofa very charming description. The old keep is completely cast into the shade by a large modern housewhich has been erected beside it, the towers of which are seen in theView (Fig. 145). The old building (Fig. 146) consists of a square sixteenth-century keep atthe south-east corner of a courtyard, which is surrounded with ranges ofseventeenth and eighteenth-century buildings. The keep is a small struc- LOCIINAW CASTLE 211 THIRD PERIOD ^?llS

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