Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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FLOOR Fig. 1401.—Grange House. Plans of Ground Floor and First Floor. Indeed, the greater portion of the structure is of this century, being thework of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, the well-known writer on Scottishsubjects. Only the part tinted black on the Ground Plan (Fig. 1401) is as old as1592, and of that portion a great many of the embellishments are modern.Such are the two western semi-octagonal turrets, the balconies, and thedormer windows. This is evident both from the structure itself and froma comparison of the views now given with the view by Storer of thehouse in its original state. The whole structure is harled, and the old portions and the new areso blended together that at first sight one hardly knows where the old v. T FOURTH PERIOD — 290 — GRANGE HOUSE work ends and the new begins; but when the plan is laid down thefamiliar arrangements of an old Scottish mansion-house of the L formdisclose themselves.
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Fio. 1402.—Grange House. View fiom South-West. We have first the long narrow structure forming the main part of thehouse, vaulted on the ground floor, and rising to the height of threestories. The wing forming the L projects to the south, and contains GRANGE HOUSE _ 291 FOURTH PERIOD apartments. There is also a square tower projecting from the northside This seems originally to have contained the doorway m the re-enter-in<^ angle, and also a wide main stair leading to the ancient hal now thexnodern dining-room, at which level it terminated. From the hall a wheel-

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