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 GLENBUCKET CASTLE 243 FOURTH PERIOD The ground floor is vaulted, and contains the usual kitchen and cellar accommodation, ample loops being provided for enfilading the faces of the various walls. One cellar (the wine-cellar) has the ordinary private stair from the dining-room. There is a passage from the entrance door to the various rooms. The first floor now contains two principal rooms, the hall or dining- room and the drawing-room, the former entering directly from the staircase, and the latter from the hall. But originally the whole space seems to have been, as usual, devoted to the hall, the central dividing wall being an addition. The private room is in the north-east tower, entering off the drawing-room. From this floor two corbelled turrets in the inner angles of the towers contain newel stairs to the upper floors, which would be divided into bedrooms, each with a separate door from the staircases. FIG. 697. Glenbucket Castle. View from the South-East. The exterior (Figs. 697 and 698) is of the usual plain character. The angle towers are provided with a turret at the salient angle, that of the north-east wing being circular, and that of the south-west wing square. The latter has an additional circular turret on the angle nearest the entrance door. There is also a square turret on the south-east angle of the main building, but there is not one on the north-west angle, probably because that side of the building was commanded by loops in the two stair turrets. The above angle turrets were provided with shot-holes through the corbels. The supports of the angle stair turrets are very unusual, being arches, instead of the corbels generally employed. In this example the two towers at the angles are square and of large