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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Pio. 1385. —Gagie House. Block Plan of House and Garden. Although it has been slightly altered in parts, and has had variousmodern additions attached to it (shown by hatched lines on Plan, * Memorials of Angus and Mearns, p. 235. t We have to thank Mr, T. S. Robertson for the sketches of Gagie, and thehistorical information is obtained from Wardens Aiujus or Forfarshire, Vol. v. p. 11. FOURTH PERIOD — 276 — GAGIE HOUSE Fig. 1385), it still retains a certain old-fashioned aspect both as regardsthe house itself and its surroundings. The old part of the building is shown tinted black on Plan. It is a longnarrow structure of two stories in height, with round turrets at the southgable (seen in the View, Fig. 1386). There has been an alteration on thisgable, which has been Avidened, as is seen from the perpendicular lines ofthe old corners. Some of the rooms retain certain of their old features, such as chimney-pieces, wood-panelled walls and doors, and in one room (Fig. 1387) there
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Fio. 1386.—Gagie House. View from South-East. is a quaint writing-desk, with drawers fitted into the lower part of thewindow. Some of the ironwork from the doors, and other details, areshown in Fig. 1388. The garden, with its old enclosing walls, still remains intact, with agroup of yew trees in front of the house. The summer-house (Fig. 1389)is a fair specimen of Renaissance work, and has an open Doric colonnadetowards the garden. On the building are carved the Guthrie arms,with the date 1614. The sundial (marked on the Plan), although of aplain design, well befits its situation. GAGIK HOUSE 277 FOURTH PERIOD At the end of the sixteenth century Gagie belonged to a family of thename of Sibbald, and in 1610 it was sold to William Guthrie, second son

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