Identifier: castellateddomes05macg (find matches)
Title: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: MacGibbon, David, d. 1902 Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930
Subjects: Architecture Architecture, Domestic Castles
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fio. 1159. -South Queensfevry, House at. Fireplace aiKl Date over Dooiwny. the principal room of this house. It is finely carved in stone, with woodenpanelling over the shelf. The date 1G34 shown on the panel does notoccupy this position, but is over the entrance doorway to the house. PRESTONPANS 51 FOURTH PERIOD PRESTONPANS, Haddingtonshire. An old town, on the margin of the Frith of Forth, about nine miles eastfrom Edinburgh, in the vicinity of which are several important structuresalready described separately.* The trade of this town consisted laigely,
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Fio. 1160.—Prestonpans. View of Cottage opposite old Chmcliyard. and still consists, in the making of salt, the manufacture of which wasencouraged by the monks of Newbattle, who held the neighbouring pro-perty of Prestongrange. We here find a few little-altered specimens of the smaller houses or * Preston Tower, Vol. i. p. 317 ; Magdalens House, Vol. ii. p. 545 ; NorthfieldHouse, Vol. II. p. 183. In addition to these there is Old Preston House, part ofwhich still remains, the residence of Lord Grange (see Carlyles Autohiography); alsoBankton, the residence of Colonel Gardiner, who was killed at the hattle of Prestonpans. FOURTH PERIOD — 52 PRESTONPANS cottages of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. That shown inFig. 1160 was built in 1729 by John Howison, whose initials and thoseof his wife, Agnes Wood, occur on a sundial (see enlarged Sketch) on one corner of the house. John Howison was amason, and the masons arms (a chevron be-tween three castles) are also carved above the

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