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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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rance into thecourtyard must have passed through the ground floor of these erections.This structure is now, however, much ruined, little being left except thesouth-west gable and part of the interior wall. A parapet wall no doubtran round the top of the enclosing wall, and there are traces of a corbelledgarde-robe at one angle. The round tower at the south-east angle (Fig. BREACACHA CASTLE, COLL 119 SECOND PERIOD 67) has been a story higher than the wall, and has been crowned with anembattled parapet, the gargoyles or holes for the escape of the water fromthe parapet or platform being still apparent (Fig. 68), and of the usualcharacter of such features in the isles. Some of the embrasures are alsostill preserved. The keep (Fig. 68) is doubtless the oldest part of thecastle, and its features lead to the conclusion that it belongs to the SecondPeriod of our Castellated Architecture (fourteenth century). It has thesame simple form and thick walls as the castles of that date. The entrance
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Fio. (38.—Breacacha Castle, Coll, from South-West. door appears to have been at the level of the first floor, but the place is soencumbered with rubbish that it is diflicult to determine the originallevels. The parapet is carried up flush with the outer face of the wallswithout any moulding or corbelling, as in many of those towers. On thesouth-east angle only (Fig. 67) has there been a corbelled bartizan, and thecorbelling is of the simplest kind. The windows are very small andprimitive-looking, and there are no fireplaces. The keep is five stories inheight, and a single wheel-stair in the south-east angle gives access toeach. The floors have all been of wood, and have now disappeared. The SECOND PEHIOD — 120 — CASTLE COEFFIN plan shows a garde-robe in the thickness of the first or hall floor. A parapetwalk 4 feet in width runs round the top of the walls, passing outside theeast and west gables of the roof (Fig. 69). The only work of an ornamental character to be observed in th

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