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 BISHOP 8 HOUSE, ORKNEY 193 FOURTH PERIOD at ornamentation. This is in the form of a slightly projecting porch, with mouldings round the doorway (Fig. 651), surmounted with a panel containing the arms and crest of the Bishop. FIG. 651. Bishop's House. Porch and Doorway. On the apex was originally carved the date 1633, now reduced to the two last figures. INNERPEFFREY CASTLE, PERTHSHIRE. This is a good example of a plain Scotch house of the beginning of the seventeenth century. It was built by James Drummond, first Lord Madderty, about 1610, and stands on the north bank of the Earn, about four miles south-east from Crieff. The plan is of the L form (Fig. 652), with a square tower contain- ing the staircase in the re-entering angle. The wall enclosing the barmkin started from the north-west angle of the building, where one door-jamb (with roll moulding) still remains, forming part of the angle of the house. This doorway was commanded by a shot-hole in the entrance lobby. The ground floor is vaulted, and contains the kitchen and the usual stores and cellars. The kitchen has the ordinary large arched fireplace, with a seat and cupboard at one end, and an oven at the other. A shot-hole from the kitchen protects the door, and from the ingoing of the shot-hole a curious service opening is formed into the entrance lobby, in which a stone seat is provided under the staircase. VOL. II. N