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 DRUM HOUSE 557 FOURTH PERIOD DRUM HOUSE, MIDLOTHIAN. Drum House is situated about four miles south from Edinburgh. With this mansion we close for the present our review of the Domestic Architecture of Scotland, and we select this edifice for that purpose, as it is a favourable example of the completely developed Renaissance style, in which not a single reminiscence of the Scottish forms and features is to be found. We might have chosen far larger and more imposing examples, but could hardly have found one where the spirit of the Renaissance is carried out with greater refinement and beauty of detail, and this is done with no stinted hand, for throughout the whole house, both externally and internally, there seem to have been no restrictions imposed on the architect, otherwise than as to the size of the building, which, as already hinted, is of modest dimensions. GROUND FLOOR FIG. 977. Drum House. Plan of Ground Floor. Throughout this work we have frequently drawn attention to evidences of the influence of the Renaissance on our native style, as at Stirling Castle, Falkland, Linlithgow, Caerlaverock, Innes House, and other places; but at these we have found that that influence has been something merely grafted on to the traditions of the country, and that the real stem of Scottish Architecture has hitherto been of native growth. At Craighall and Caroline Park we have seen the experiment tried of introducing classic work in older buildings, and at Drumlanrig we have an imposing example of early Renaissance. But these are all influenced more or less by the spirit of Scottish art. At Drum all traces of this native style