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FOURTH PERIOD 380 ROWALLAN CASTLE building, is the private room, the wood-work of which is specially noticeable. It has an inside wooden porch or screen of fine workman- ship and design (Fig. 827), with a wardrobe of similar design fitted into the adjoining recess. The window in the south-east angle of this room is provided with stone seats, and with a cupboard in the wall on each side. That on the south side, with its quaint ornamentation, is shown in Fig. 828. The small traceried perforations in the doors are similar to those of the almonry in the chapel at Stobhall. FIG. 827. Rowallan Castle. Interior of Private Room. A turret stair entering off the dining-room, and projecting in the angle of the courtyard, leads to the upper floor. The landing gives fair access to what, as will be observed from Fig. 829, is merely an attic of two rooms. This was probably intended for, and may have been, as at Earlshall, a large reception-room or drawing-room, as the large window in the south gable, now built up, seems to indicate. The central room in