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 FOURTH PERIOD 492 CARNOCK CASTLE gave entrance to the smaller staircase turret. The ground floor con- tained the usual vaulted cellars and passage, with the kitchen at the east end; but during the later alterations, when the exterior kitchen was erected, the large fireplace of the original kitchen was built up, and the apartment made into a cellar. On the first floor the hall, 29 feet 3 inches long by 1 8 feet 2 inches wide, occupies the central apartment, and was accessible from both stair- DlNINS ROOM. DRAWING ROOM. PLAN OF FIRST FLOOR T E R R A C FIG. 920.- Carnock Castle. Plans. cases. There is a separate room at either end of the hall, each with a separate entrance from one of the staircases. One of these may have been the private room, with family bedroom above, the rooms at the opposite end, approached by the other staircase, being probably the drawing-room, with guests' rooms above. The hatched portions of the plans indicate the additions made by Sir Thomas Nicolson in 1634. That date, together with the arms of the Nicolsons (" or, a lion's head between three falcons' heads, erased gules, a bordure of the last, with motto ( Generositate ' "), and the initials of Sir Thomas and his wife, Isobel Henderson, and her arms (see small shield), are carved in the tympana of the dormer windows in the south elevation (Fig. 919). The tympanum of a dormer in the north elevation (Fig. 9 19; upper central dormer) contains the monogram of the united