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 FOURTH PERIOD 520 FERNILEE main staircase ascended from the entrance doorway, giving access to the dining-room on one side, and the drawing-room on the other, as at Dim- tarvie. There is a wing pushed out at the back of the house, which, however, was probably not original. Some traces still remain of the enclosed gardens and pleasure-grounds, with the square high-roofed pavilions at the angles, so common during the last century. It adds an interest to this house, situated in the midst of Ettrick Forest, to know that in it Miss Alison Rutherford, afterwards Mrs. Cock- burn, wrote her popular version of the " Flowers of the Forest." WINTOUN HOUSE, HADDINGTONSHIRE. Wintoun House is situated about twelve miles eastwards from Edin- burgh, and about one mile from Pencaitland. The long unbroken southern front of the building (Fig. 9^6) stands on the edge of a steep bank sloping down to the valley of the river Tyne ; on all other sides the surrounding ground is level, and laid out as policies. During this century extensive additions have been made to the house along the north and west sides. Fortunately these additions are not high, as other- wise the best parts of one of our finest seventeenth-century mansions would have been blotted out, as it is on the north front that the archi- - FIG. 946. Wintoun House. Plan of First Floor. tect of the house has exerted his utmost skill. Fig. 947 shows all of the original north front that can be seen above the modern addition. The south front is very plain, the explanation of this being that the existing house is an enlargement of an earlier building which was a comparatively plain structure. At a later time the north and east fronts, and parts of the west front, were enriched and added to, while the south front, although heightened, was otherwise left in very much its original con- dition. The evidence of the staircase towers and the ornamental windows