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HADDINGTON.] -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. -- [HADDINGTON.

the angle formed by the confluence of the Tyne
and Gifford Water, a little over a mile to the
south of Haddington. It is an extensive and
composite structure, manifestly the production
of several building operations, the nucleus being
the south-western portion, which is a 15th
century tower ; this has been extended in the
17th century and in more modern times.

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 81.-Lennoxlove or Lethington (No. 70).

The tower is a massive and lofty building
(fig. 50), L-shaped on plan (fig. 81) and was once
enclosed by a barmkin, but the only remaining
portion of this is the entrance which lies north
of the tower. It is a wide 16th century gate-
way with a semi-circular head having a quirked
cavetto moulding returning round the head and
down the jambs. The tower is built of rubble
and has been harled. The windows have
evidently been enlarged and have a quirked
edge-roll wrought on jambs and lintel. There
are three main floors beneath and an attic floor

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above the parapet walk, which latter appears
to have been reconstructed c. late 16th century.
The walk returns along each wall. The parapet
is without embrasures, has open circular pro-
jections at all angles except the south-western,
where there is a cap house, and is borne on a
continuous corbel course rather reminiscent of
that at Nunraw (No. 45). It consists of two

[illustration continued]
FIG. 81.-Lennoxlove or Lethington (No. 70).

members, of which the upper bears the billet
enrichment and the lower is cabled. The sur-
face water from the walk is discharged from
waterspouts representing monsters. The mach-
icolation borne on a squinch arch above the
re-entering angle is of ashlar and is a 17th
century construction. Its parapet is looped for
musketry, but machicolation is blocked.
The cap house and attic floor have been re-
constructed in the 17th century.
The main block measures 55 feet by 38 1/2 feet
externally. The wing projects 23 1/2 feet east-