I have seen late 19th century photographs that show the Caldwell Manor near Uplawmoor, Scotland. There is a large pond in front of the manor, but whatever may have in the past been considered one of the finest landscaped gardens in Renfrewshire was not to be seen in the photographs. Then I came across an apt description of a similar manor, in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, written about 1814. "It had been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence. The windows were numberless, but very small; the roof had some nondescript kind of projections, called bartizans, and displayed at each frequent angle a small turret, rather resembling a pepper-box than a Gothic watch-tower. Neither did the front indicate absolute security from danger. There were loop-holes for musketry, and iron stanchions on the lower windows, probably to repel any roving band of gypsies, or resist a predatory visit from the caterans of the neighboring Highlands. [The] stables...[resembled]rather a prison for murderers, and larceners, and such like as are tried at 'sizes, than a place for any Christian cattle. Above these dungeon-looking stables were graneries...The whole scene was depressing, for it argued, at the first glance, at least a stagnation of industry, and perhaps of intellect." This is the manor that Barry Robertson reported (see, The Caldwell Mystery) ceased to serve as a residence for the Mures who had occupied it for over 500 years, and eventually became a psychiatric facility.