Scottish Baronial architecture Scottish Baronial architecture
(sometimes Baronial style) is a style of architecture with its
origins in the sixteenth century, drawing on the features of
Medieval castles, tower houses and the French Renaissance
châteaux. Pioneered by figures including Sir Walter Scott, in
the nineteenth century it was revived as part of the Gothic
Revival and remained popular until World War I, with extensive
use in Scotland and examples in Ireland, Canada, New Zealand.
Buildings of the style frequently feature towers adorned by
small turrets called bartizans. Roof lines are uneven, their
crenelated battlements often broken by stepped gables. While
small lancet windows may appear in towers and gables, large bay
windows of plate glass were not uncommon, but even these often
had their individual roofs adorned by pinnacles and crenelation.
Porches, porticos and porte-cocheres, were often given the
castle treatment, an imitation portcullis on the larger houses
would occasionally be suspended above