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OCHILTREE CASTLE 135 FOURTH PERIOD Edinburgh and Glasgow branch of the North British Railway. The house is in good preservation, and is occupied as a farm residence. It consists of two parts, of which the earliest portion is shown black, and the later in hatched lines on the plans (Fig. 590). The original house was of the L form, with the circular staircase turret in the re-entering angle, and the entrance doorway adjoining to it in the north wall. At the time when the additions were made the old FIG. 592. Ochiltree Castle. View from the South-West. building underwent certain alterations, which had the effect of elongat- ing the north leg of the |_. Thus the original kitchen was in the north wing, as is evident from part of the old arched fireplace still remaining, and bearing the wide chimney seen at the roof in the view from the north-east (Fig. 591). A new kitchen was placed in the extended wing, and the old one was cut up in the manner shown by the hatched parti- tions on the ground floor plan. The entrance doorway was also changed