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 FOURTH PERIOD 494 CARNOCK CASTLE bably erected in 1634),, but the old corbel table of the original parapet has been allowed to remain (see view), and shows that this turret has been carried up to a somewhat higher level than the parapet walk. The original roof would no doubt contain an attic story, but Sir Thomas, in 1634, required this to be enlarged, and made into a good bedroom floor. Hence the lofty roof, and the mode in which the southern dormers are raised above the parapet (Fig. 921). At this time too, as we have several times noticed, symmetry became an essential in all designs, and a vigorous and far from unsuccessful effort has been here made to render FIG. 922. Carnock Castle. View from the North- West. the south front symmetrical. The old small windows were enlarged and surrounded with an architrave. They are all made ot equal size, and spaced as nearly as possible symmetrically. A doorway, opening from one of the vaulted cellars of the,ground floor on to the garden terrace, is placed exactly in the centre of the south front, with a wide flight of steps opposite it leading down to the flower garden. The scrolls which terminate the stone edging of the steps are kept in a plane parallel to the slope of the ground.