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 FOURTH PERIOD 270 MONCUR CASTLE at the round tower, where the staircase cuts it off from commanding the west side, the shot-hole is carried through below the stair so that it is about 10 feet long (see Plan of Ground Floor). On the first floor there has been a small apartment or guard-room at the stair landing. In the main building is the hall, about 32 feet long by 20 feet wide, with a wide projecting fireplace. At the end of the hall is a private room opening into the stair in the turret, with a garde-robe in the thickness of the wall. Leading from this room is a square vaulted apart- ment in the round tower. The upper story is reached by the two turret staircases. The floor of this story is gone, but it was probably divided into three apartments in the main building, with an entresol room in the round tower. FENTON TOWER, HADDINGTONSHIRE. This castle stands on rough hilly ground about a mile east from Dirleton railway station, and is a conspicuous object for a considerable distance in all directions. It is designed on a modification of the L and Z plans (Fig. 727), having a wing added to the principal arm of the L, PIG. 727. Fen ton Tower. Without this addition it would be an example of the Z plan, with a square tower at the south-west angle and a round tower at the north- east angle. The plan is thus very similar to that of Corse Castle (p. 267). The entrance doorway is in the re-entering angle of the square tower, in which a wheel staircase, 5 feet wide, conducts to the first floor. The ground floor has been vaulted, but the arches are now almost entirely demolished and the partitions removed, so that the internal arrange- ments cannot be distinctly ascertained. Probably the kitchen was in the eastern wing, with a service stair in the north turret. The hall (about 30 feet by 16 feet) is on the first floor, with a private room in the east wing entering from it. From this room a small cor- belled turret, adjoining the north tower (seen in the view, Fig. 728, but omitted by mistake in the plan), led to the family bedrooms above the