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Reflection: Plans - Tower house, Nutley, Hampshire, UK, 2011- . Reference: Sergison Bates, el croquis 187; pg.165 . #architecture #sergisonbates #SBa #elcroquis #plan #drawing #courtyard #house #towerhouse #wall #inhabitedwall #vernacular #tradition #craft #interior #design #catalogue #visualreference #observations_and_reflections https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVhfS3F5GK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ktcoxzu0endq

As a wee green Witch, Greenhilde doesn’t need much - a bed, a fire, ham & cheese for lunch, some plants and her amythest gazing stone (since updated).

&: Plans - Tower house, Nutley, Hampshire, UK, 2011- . Reference: Sergison Bates, el croquis 187; pg.164 . #architecture #sergisonbates #SBa #elcroquis #plan #drawing #courtyard #house #towerhouse #wall #inhabitedwall #vernacular #tradition #craft #interior #design #catalogue #visualreference #observations_and_reflections https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVjdrRlA9R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oubzjaknfx8v

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Castletaylor Towerhouse I was fortunate enough to be out early this morning when I came across this hidden gem. Castletaylor Towerhouse formerly known as Ballymchugh is a detached multi period country house dating back as early as 1480. I love the rich autumn colours of the trees framing the ‘castle’ and the golden morning sun. . #castletaylor #castletaylorgalway #15century #17century #towerhouse #ruins #autumncastle #autumn #irisharchitecture #medievalireland #discoverireland #irishcastles #irishcastle #niah #irishculture #irishheritage (at Castletaylor Ardrahan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFnlUspP2z/?igshid=1qmif11phrwwd

Day 336 of 365 Photo Challenge.  Carrick Castle is a 14th-century tower house on the west shore of Loch Goil on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located between Cuilmuich and Carrick, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Lochgoilhead. The castle stands on a rocky peninsula, and was formerly defended to landward by a ditch and drawbridge. The building is around 66 by 38 feet (20 by 12 m), and up to 64 feet (20 m) high with walls seven feet thick. It consists of two floors above the central great hall and stands 64 feet high. There is a curiosity – a small chimney is built into a window recess. There is an appendage of a smaller 17th Century structure to the original rectangular tower house. The structure has been designated a scheduled monument and a Category A listed building by Historic Environment Scotland. Modern-day houses in the surrounding area take the name Carrick Castle. The castle was probably built by the Campbells in the last decades of the fourteenth century, at a point of time when the family was dominant in the area.  Mary, Queen of Scots, visited here in 1563. During Argyll's Rising in 1685, when Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, attempted to overthrow King James VII, captain Thomas Hamilton of HMS Kingfisher reported that the castle had been burnt and walls reduced sufficiently to make it useless to the Campbell forces. Legend has it that the ship bombarded the castle, badly damaging the keep, which lost its roof. The castle was intermittently occupied until it was sold to the Murrays, the Earls of Dunmore. The keep was a ruin for many years but is now in private ownership and undergoing restoration. #365photochallenge #photooftheday #carrickcastle #castle #towerhouse #lochgoil #argyleandbute #loch #nightphotography (at Carrick Castle (village)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lhJdBBXKE/?igshid=17sl8y0rzw2ly

Day 233 of 365 Photo Challenge.  Craufurdland Castle is a rebuilt tower house, originating in the 16th-century, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north east of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, north of the Craufurdland Water. The property belonged to the Crawfords from the 13th century. John Crawford of Craufurdland was killed at the battle of Flodden in 1513. The castle was built in the 16th century, remodelled and extended in the 17th century, and further extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. Ownership passed to the Howiesons in 1793. The house was restored in the 1980s, and it is still occupied. A corbelled-out battlement at one end of the original tower remains, as part of the west wing. This is three storeys and an attic high. There is a basement which is vaulted, but the interior of the tower has been greatly altered. There is a fine plaster ceiling, dated 1668, in the King’s Room, incorporating the arms of the Stewarts. The 17th-century east wing is two storeys high. It is said that an underground passage connected the castle to Dean Castle, some miles away. The castle was remodelled as a castellated mansion, in Gothic style. #365photochallenge #photooftheday #castle #CraufurdlandCastle #towerhouse #scotland #Fenwick #black& whitePhoto #EastAyrshire #architecture #scottishcastle (at Craufurdland Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1b9oZEBS39/?igshid=2cvnb1p7oqtf

The Pringles of Loch Leven. #lochleven #pringles #castle #towerHouse #maryqueenofscots #island #loch (at Loch Leven Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1OuMY7HTg8/?igshid=he2gh5t6t6cr