Page:The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887) - Volume 2.djvu/309

 TILQUHILLY CASTLE 293 FOURTH PERIOD and contains the usual kitchen and cellars, one of the latter having the ordinary stair from the hall. All the apartments are well provided with shot-holes, and they are so placed in the towers and at the sides of the doorway as to command every side of the house. The main house or central block contained the hall on the first floor, with a private room in the north-east tower. There is a separate room in the south-west tower. In the angle over the entrance door, and cor- belled out in the corresponding angle at the north-east tower, there are two newel stairs leading to the upper floors, which are now a good deal altered. Some frag- ments of good old wood-work lying in one of the upper rooms are well worthy of being preserved. The old iron-grated "yett" still hangs on the entrance doorway. The property of Tilquhilly belonged FIG. 749. Tilquhiiiy Castle. Plan, in 1479 to Walter Ogstoii, whose daughter carried it to her husband, David Douglas, son of Lord Dalkeith. The present castle is said to have been built by his grandson in 1576. Probably it may have been begun by him, but the style of the exterior would lead one to suppose that it was not finished, as we now see it, till some time in the seventeenth century. NEWTON, PERTHSHIRE. An old-fashioned Scottish house near Blairgowrie, standing on the high FIG. 750. Newton. ground above the town, and commanding an extensive view over the