Tower houses

NOTES: The castle was originally built at the end of the 14th century and remodelled in the 16th. The gateway dates from c. 1670.

SOURCE: R.W.Billings. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1845-1852), vol. 1

SOURCE: Robert & James Adam. The Works in architecture of Robert and James Adam (London, 1778 [i.e. 1773]-1779), vol. 2, no. 1, pl. 5 NOTES: Robert Adam was commissioned to decorate the interior of Derby House between 1773 and 1774. The house was demolished in 1862.

SOURCE: Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Entretiens sur l'architecture (Paris: A. Morel et Cie, 1864), Atlas, pl. 32

SOURCE: Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Entretiens sur l'architecture (Paris: A. Morel et Cie, 1864), Atlas, pl. 33

SOURCE: William Pearson. A Selection of antiquities in the county of Salop (London, 1824), pl. IV NOTES: This copy of the book is a new edition of the original volume, published in 1807. The etched views present in the first edition were reprinted without change. This semi-fortified tower house was built between 1284 and 1293 by Bishop Burnell, Edward I's Lord Chancellor. It was abandoned by the mid-17th century.

NOTES: In 1905, while attending the Glasgow School of Architecture, Whitelaw won the Alexander Thomson travelling scholarship and spent a year in Spain and Italy.