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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
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ounted by a curved pediment,which has been removed, and is now placed over the door to the courtyard.It contains a shield (Fig. 1452) with the initials G. K. an<l M F and averse from 2 Corinthians v. 1 : For we know that if our earthly house otthis tabernacle were dissolved, &c. The carving is, however, very muchobliterated by decay. On a dormer window on the north side of thehouse the above initials again occur, with the date 1638, and that dateis also carved on the lintel of one of the attic windows in the east gable. FOURTH PEKIOD 344 PILRIG HOUSE The original kitchen fireplace, with its wide arch and chimney, is stillpreserved. This accounts for the great thickness of the west gable, whichis continued up to the upper floors, and gives space on the first floor (seePlan) for a deep alcove on one side and a small strong-room on the other.The latter seems formerly to have had an iron door. The doorway, withtwo columns (seen in the View), and steps leading up to it, are compara-
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Fio. 1401.—Piliij; House. View from Suuth-West. tively modern, and were probably formed when the additions to the north(not shown in the Plan) were made. The initials above referred to are those of Gilbert Kirkwood (bywhom the house was erected in 1638) and Margaret Foulis, his spouse,who was of the family of Foulis of Colinton. Before their time theproperty belonged (in 1584) to Sir Patrick Monypenny, whose nameagain occurs in connection with the place in 1601. The estate of Pilrig was acquired in 1718 by James Balfoui-, merchant PITCAIKLIE HOUSE 345 FOURTH PERIOD in Leith, ancestor of the present proprietor. In 1767 James Balfour,Procurator and Professor of Law, was in possession, and it is now theproperty of John M. Balfour Melville, Esq. of Pilrig and Strathkinnes.The house is well situated, and has a fine pi^ospect to the south.

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