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 FOURTH PERIOD 512 CARDARROCH a certain grace about them. The view gives a good idea of a plain Scottish house of the seventeenth century. The original portion has been built on the L plan, but when the addition was made it was so contrived as to take the house out of the " Keep " category, and convert it into a modern plan. 1718 1625 FIG. 937. Cardarroch. Plan, and View from the North- West. A few yards to the north of the house (the porch is on the north side) is a quaint building which seems to have been a carriage-house 011 the ground floor, and a dovecot above, now converted into a dwelling-house. HOUSTON HOUSE, LINLITHGOWSHIRE. This house is situated near the village of Uphall. It is very lofty, overtopping the ancient trees which surround it, and is of considerable interest, especially in its plan, which is complete, with the courtyard offices, and enclosing walls, containing the entrance gateway (Fig. 938). Although it has undergone various alterations to make it more suited for modern ideas, it is still essentially a house of the seventeenth-century type. The staircase at the north-east angle of the house is of that