Page:The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887) - Volume 1.djvu/287

 SAUCHIE TOWER 267 THIRD PERIOD There appears to have been a small wooden screen at the door of the hall (to conceal the door to the garde-robe), but it did not form a screen across the whole hall, as in many of the larger castles, nor is there height for a gallery above it. There is, however, a stone basin (see sketch), with an ogee-shaped arch, and a drain to the outside, at this end of the hall, probably used as a wash-hand basin, as at Borthwick. It has a plain ogee arch over the recess for the basin. FIG. 219. Sauchie Tower. View from the North-West. The second floor is increased in size by thinning the west wall (see Section). This was the proprietor's private apartment. Some of the oak beams over this floor, and the hall floor, as well as the ground floor, still