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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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Fig. 1399.—Gladney House. View of East Front. FOURTH PERIOD — 2^ GLADNEY HOUSE surrounding its history, it is quite obvious that at one time this was afine stately mansion surrounded with high walls, and doubtless pleasantgardens stretching down to the Forth. The interior of the house has,as may be supposed, been entirely stripped of all its old fittings anddecorations, and the fabric suffered a good deal, as we have been informed,by fire some years ago. Almost the only remaining internal featurewhich can be considered characteristic of an old house is the well in thearea floor. The central recessed facade (Fig. 1399), with its pilasters andpediment, is a well-detailed and bold piece of work. The carved capitals
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Pig. 1400.- Gladney House. View from South-West. have been hacked away, and the doorway, with its side lights, is nowobscured with a mean wooden porch, which fills up the whole recess.The projecting wings on either side, with their O.G. gables, have beenconsiderably disfigured within the last few years. At present both thegal:)les finish with sloping roofs, as shown by the nearest one in the Yiew(Fig. 1400), but in 1886 the more distant projection retained its originalgable as shown, similarly to that at the south-west corner, seen in thesame View. Adjoining the last gable there will be observed a projecting GRANGE HOUSE — 289 — FOURTH PERIOD break in the cornice, supported on corbels. This is supposed to havebeen the base of some kind of belfry. Gladney House was probably built in the first half of the seventeenthcentury. GRANGE HOUSE, Edinburgh. The estate now called the Grange was, previous to the Reformation,the farm of St. Giles Collegiate Church in Edinburgh. The presentmans

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