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 FOURTH PERIOD 558 DRUM HOUSE have disappeared, and its architect,, we can easily see, drew his inspira- tion from buildings entirely " furth of Scotland." Without such an example as Drum, our review of architecture in Scotland would have been incomplete, seeing that for about a century afterwards., wherever there was any architecture of the smallest importance, the Renaissance remained the prevailing style of the country. It is doubtless true that during this period several large and costly edifices were built in what has been called the " Castellated style/' but as these belong so thoroughly to the modern system of revival, they do not fall within our limits. Drum House (Fig. 977) consists of a central block, three stories high, measuring about 68 feet from east to west and about 43 feet 6 inches from north to south, with narrow side wings about 35 feet long, one at each end. The central block is divided into three nearly equal spaces. The middle space (Fig. 978), which projects beyond the line of the north and south fronts, and contains the entrance door facing the south, approached by a spacious flight of stairs, is given up to the entrance hall ENTRANCE HALL DINING ROOM BED ROOMS FIRST FLOOR FIG. 978. Drum House. Plan of Principal Floor. and the grand staircase ; while the side spaces contain, one the dining- room, and the other a morning-room and business-room. Small rooms and staircases leading to the ground floor occupy the wings. Upstairs the whole of the eastern side space is devoted to the drawing-room, the remainder of this floor containing boudoir and bedrooms. A small con- cealed circular stair leads to additional bedrooms in the attics. The basement floor contains the usual servants' accommodation of a county gentleman's house. The square block tinted black on plan, represents a portion of an older building which formed the original house of Drum, and contains