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FOURTH PERIOD 196 WILLIAMSTOUN feudal castle,, with its corbelled projections,, squinthole-looking windows, and other defensive arrangements ; while the south front (Fig. 655), clear of all this, assumes a more modern appearance, with still a certain old-world look about it. Williamstoun estate was purchased by Lawrence Oliphant of Gask, in 1650, from Sir William Blair of Kinfauns, and probably the house was built shortly after this date as a residence for his eldest son, who mar- ried during the lifetime of his father. FIG. 655. "Williamstoun. View from the South-West. The entrance is in the centre of the south front, with a straight flight of steps in front on entering, and rooms on either hand. It is the same arrangement of plan as in the dowry house at Stobhall. The building is in good preservation, and is used as a farm residence. KELTY HOUSE, PERTHSHIRE. Kelty House is situated at the northern base of the Ochil Hills, in the parish of Dunning (Fig. 656). The house is entire, but, being uninhabited and shut up, we were unable to make an examination of the interior. It furnishes, as men- tioned in the Introduction to the Fourth Period, an interesting link in the history of the turret, one of the most conspicuous features in Scottish Domestic Architecture. At Kelty we have the turret in its last stage, no longer a place of security from which to defend the house, nor an architectural adornment