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FOURTH PERIOD - 516 - JERVISWOOD letters G. B., and the Baillie arms (nine stars), but it is not known where fan el mottle? in as FIG. 942. Jerviswood. Details. it was originally placed. Fig. 942 shows some of the interesting details in which the interior of the house abounds. DUNTARVIE CASTLE, LINLITHGOWSHIRE. This building, situated near the Winchburgh Railway Station, is an example of the houses built in the seventeenth century, showing how modern taste and feeling were gradually overcoming the old forms and arrangements. Externally there is a good deal of the old character in the back elevation (Fig. 943), with its angle towers and corbelled staircase turrets, and chimney. The front or south elevation (Fig. 944) also still retains its moulded string-course, broken round the panel for the coat of arms over the door. But there are observable many signs of the new regime. Thus, the doorway is placed about the centre of the south front, and the building is balanced on each side of it. There is the same effort after symmetry in the back elevation, with its two corresponding towers and angle turrets. That these towers are so designed for the purpose of symmetry only is clear from the plan, which shows that the internal arrangements at each end are different, and that no tower is needed at the west end.