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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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wide, and 19 feet 4 inches to the top of thevault. There seems to have been an upper room in the vault, reached bya doorway from a landing in the wheel-stair, but it is now built up. Alarge window over the hall fireplace gave light to this apartment in thevault. The hall itself is lighted by two large windows with stone seats,that on the south side having evidently been enlaiged at a later date.A mural chamber at the south-west angle enteiS off one of these windows.A service window opens from the kitchen into a recess adjoining the PORTINCROSS CASTLE — 155 SECOND PERIOD entrance passage. At the top of the wheel-stair there are two doorways,both leading into the main block, one into a chamber in the roof spaceover the hall, and the other into the parapet walk which runs round thebuilding. After passing round this walk, a flight of steps about 6 feetwide is reached leading up to the parapet walk of the wing, which isabout 8 feet higher than the walk of the main block. This additional
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Fin. 97.—Portincross Castle, from South-West. height permits of the introduction of two floors above the kitchen, andthere was besides a place in the attic, which has evidently been enlargedat some later period by raising the parapet on the south side and includingthe walk in the room (Fig. 97). These rooms in the tower were evidentlybedrooms, and are provided with fireplaces and garde-robes. The following interesting extract fiom the House of Rowallan (p. 68),serves to throw some light on the history of Portincross:— SECOND PERIOD 156 — DUCHAL CASTLE Adam More de Rowallan is a witness to a charter by Robert ii.Tergusio de Foulertone de arane terras nostras de Orqwhonyne, &c.Apud Arnele 26to die Novembris anno Regni notri secundo (1372). Charter in the possession of Captain John Pullerton of Kihnichail, Arran,lineal representative of Fergus the grantee. Portincross Castle, the principal messuage of the barony of Arnele,and doubtless the place where this charter received the

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