The Castle Explorer's GuideKaye and Ward, 1979 - 249 pages |
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Page 108
... L - PLAN Development of tower - house whereby a wing was added at right - angles to the original rectangular house . It sometimes provided a location for a convenient newel - stair and always increased accommodation . The number of ...
... L - PLAN Development of tower - house whereby a wing was added at right - angles to the original rectangular house . It sometimes provided a location for a convenient newel - stair and always increased accommodation . The number of ...
Page 247
... plan tower - house , substantially complete apart from top storey . Interesting inscription . ( 91 , 160 ) . NAIRN ... L - plan . ( 1 ) CH PEEBLES , Peebles 2540 C12 E O Site of Norman castle at junction of Tweed and Eddleston ...
... plan tower - house , substantially complete apart from top storey . Interesting inscription . ( 91 , 160 ) . NAIRN ... L - plan . ( 1 ) CH PEEBLES , Peebles 2540 C12 E O Site of Norman castle at junction of Tweed and Eddleston ...
Page 248
... L - plan tower - house of four storeys built by Patrick , earl of Orkney . Corbelled turrets , shot - holes , gun - ports , well in kitchen . ( 108 , 160 ) . SCOTSTARVIT , Fife 3711 с . 1570 C DE Tower - house with barmkin of which ...
... L - plan tower - house of four storeys built by Patrick , earl of Orkney . Corbelled turrets , shot - holes , gun - ports , well in kitchen . ( 108 , 160 ) . SCOTSTARVIT , Fife 3711 с . 1570 C DE Tower - house with barmkin of which ...
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Aberdeenshire Alnwick assault Bamburgh barbican barmkin baronial basement battlements Beaumaris besiegers built C12 E O Caernarvon Caerphilly chamber chapel Chepstow church Conisbrough constable Conway Corfe crenellated crossbow defence ditch domestic buildings Dover Durham earthworks Edward enclosure England entrance examples fire fireplace flanking floor forebuilding fortified manor-house fragments ft high garrison gate gatehouse ground hall Harlech Henry Henry III Herefordshire inner bailey Invernesshire keep Kenilworth Kidwelly kitchen knights L-plan later London Tower loops lord machicolated manor masonry mediaeval moat motte motte-and-bailey mound mural murder-holes Newcastle Norman North Riding Northumberland original outer bailey palisade parapet pele pele-tower Pontefract Portchester portcullis postern prison protected rectangular remains of curtain ring-work Rochester roof royal castles ruins Scarborough Scottish shell-keep siege engines sometimes square stair stone storeys Substantial remains survives timber tower tower-house town walls Trebuchet turrets usually vaulted wall-towers wall-walk Warkworth Warwick wooden Yorkshire