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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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extensions in thecourtyard, seem to have been executedin the seventeenth century. The lat-ter consist, on the north side, of a two-story buUding 48 feet long and 14 feetwide internally. The entrance doorwayis in the centre, and is surmounted witha shield (Fig. 13), which no doubt con-tained the arms of the MLeans, butthe carving is now too far decayed tobe intelligible. The floors here havebeen entirely of wood, and there has been no vaulting. A straight stone staircase cut out of the west end of this buildingleads from the principal courtyard to the small open court opposite theentrance to the keep. The passage has been defended with a door. Inthis small courtyard there have evidently been some latrines withshoots at the north-west angle. The northern wall of the north addition,although not of the same great thickness as those on the east and south,is apparently very old, from the small loopholes, with pointed archessimilar to those at Dunstaffhage and Mingarry, which occur in it. It
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Pig. 13.—Duart Castle. Doorway. FIRST PERIOD 50 DUART CASTLE was not necessary that this wall should be so thick as the others, thecastle being unassailable on the north side, owing to the precipitous rockimmediately beneath it. Access to the upper floor was obtained by thecircular staircase jutting out to the north, which also contains a windowwith a pointed arch. The building on the east side of the courtyard is probably of olderdate than that on the north, but it possesses almost no distinctivefeatures to fix its age. The basement contains four vaulted cellars,two of them being each provided with a small window. The doors andwindows next the courtyard are round arched. The entrance to thenorthmost cellar has been built before the addition of the north wing,thus showing that the east wing is the older of the two. Above thesecellars there has seemingly been a great hall with four large windowslooking to the east, of which the ingoings are still visible. These havebeen cut through t

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