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ATHELSTANEFORD] HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. [ATHELSTANEFORD

of the east gable can be traced in the garden
wall. The west gable, ivy-clad, stands complete
(fig. 45). In it are two windows with sills at
different levels and at a considerable height
from the ground. The northern window is a
two-light lancet with daylights 7 to 8 inches
wide. The mullion is wanting. The southern
window is a semicircular headed single light
some 3 feet 6 inches wide. These windows
have a splay worked on the jamb and appear
to be insertions. The lateral walls no longer
exist. A doorway with a

[Drawing inserted]
FIG. 45. - St. John's Chapel (No. 9).

semicircular head is built
into the garden wall to
the north. It is 3 feet
1 inch wide and 6 feet
10 inches high. A small
splay is worked on the
jamb.
The chapel is built of
whin and rubble with
freestone dressings and was probably erected
in the 15th century. The windows and door as
above mentioned appear to belong to a later
period.

1 Statistical Account vol. x. p. 175.

v. N.W. 27 May 1913.

CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC STRUCTURES.

10. "Priests House." - In a park to the south-
east of Drem house there has been a dwelling
of considerable size. All that now remains is
a large ingle-neuk, measuring 9 feet 4 inches
by 6 feet 4 inches internally, which projected
from the western gable, as was common in the
17th century. There are several of these ingles
in the Lothians. The present structure is some
20 feet high. On plan at base it measures
externally 10 feet by 13 feet 6 inches, dimin-
ishing in area, as it ascends, by means of
offsets and terminating in a square flue. On
the ground floor are small windows in the
north and west walls and cupboards in the
north and south walls. It has been ceiled at
the level of the first offset. This ceiling would
contain an aperture to allow smoke to escape.
The opening to the interior of the dwelling has
been built up. The walls are 2 feet to 2 feet
6 inches in thickness.

v. N.W. 27 June 1913.

11. Garleton Castle. - Garleton Castle lies
about 2 miles south of Drem Station at the
northern base of Craigy Hill in the Garleton
Hills range. Apparently it comprised an
oblong enclosure, about 1/3 of an acre in area,
containing a house with a jamb or small wing
at the north-east corner and two little lodges
set at the western ends of the north and south
boundary walls (fig. 46).
The house was at least three storeys in
height. The lengths of the main block and wing
were 50 and 42 feet,

[Plan inserted]
FIG. 46 .- Garleton Castle (No. 11).

the widths are indeter-
minate ; at the south-
east angle of the wing
a circular tower, 22 feet
in diameter, is salient
to the enclosure. It is
provided with gunloops.
Of the house there
remain only the north
and east lateral walls
with indications of the
west gable and interior
partitions. All that
can be said of its arrangement is that in
the basement were three vaulted cellars within
the main block, that the western was the
kitchen and that the oncome of the fireplace
vent can still be traced. The staircase seems
to have been a turnpike built within the east
wall. A forestair built external to the enclosure
at the north-east angle, is secondary. The
masonry is irregularly coursed rubble with
dressings at voids.
The south-west lodge is oblong on plan and
is two storeys in height ; the upper floor is
now reached from a forestair on the north,
which appears to have superseded an internal
circular staircase contained within a projecting
turret on the south. The ground floor contains
two vaulted chambers, which originally com-
municated with each other. The western
chamber, now a smithy, has traces of a large
arched fireplace in the mid-partition. The
eastern chamber has a fireplace in the south-
west angle, with a hood supported on corbels
one of which is in situ. The walls are pierced
by gunloops on the south and west. The upper
floor is converted into farm labourers' dwellings.
The corresponding fore-building on the north
is modern but appears to occupy the site of

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