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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Fig. 1175. -Haddington House. View from Courtyard- broad moulded architrave, and on the lintel are carved the initials A. M. and K. C, with the date 1680. The glass door, with its small panes and moulded astrigals arched at the top, is very characteristic of seventeenth century work. In the interior of the house there are some panelled rooms, with good fireplaces and pilaster decorations. The view of the house as seen from the courtyard (see Fig. 1175) HOUSKS IN HADDINGTON 65 — FOURTH PERIOD IS very picturesque. The oriel window is of a later date than the houseitself.
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Fig. 1170.- House in Poldrait Street. Porch and Entrance Door from Street. In the garden there is a horizontal sundial, with the same initials as those on the door lintel, and the date 1688. Fig. 1177 shows the tottering remains of what has been a good example FOURTH PERIOD 66 — HOUSES IN HADDINGTON of a town House in the Nungate of Haddington. It bears the date 1658over the entrance doorway, which is formed in a small angular porch like one of the foregoing examples.

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