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FOURTH PERIOD 514 HOUSTON HOUSE interfered with, and now exist only in a fragmentary state. The whole ground floor is arched in stone, both house and offices, the latter being two stories high with an outside stair. Fio. 939. Houston House. View from North-East. The picturesque old sun-dial and pillar stand in the grounds adjoining the house, on a flat circular stone base (Fig. 939)' JERVISWOOD, LANARKSHIRE, Is a good specimen of a plain Scottish house of the seventeenth century. It stands within a mile of the town of Lanark, on the top of the high and picturesque south bank of the river Mouse, just above the deep and rocky gorge called Cartland Crags (famous from the exploits of Wallace). Originally the property of the Livingstones, Jerviswood was acquired in the middle of the seventeenth century by George Baillie, ancestor of the Earl of Haddington.