He also added a turret staircase to the tower.

In the middle of this eastern block was a gatehouse, with a turret staircase.

The Tower was approached by a winding turret staircase of 100 steps, which led from the bottom floor over the State entrance.

You can ascend the winding turret staircase and it is easy to get a feel of life in a pele tower.

Leopard-print carpeting runs up the curved front turret staircase into the master bedroom suite.

Of the many backdrops to my Danish childhood, my favourite was a black-timbered mansion with turret staircases and a disco in the dungeon.

The descent of the empty turret staircase had been uneventful enough, but the garderobe passage had seemed to her anxious gaze to teem with a constant flow of traffic.

Around 1790, Hamilton made various renovations to Murdostoun: filling the turret staircase and the old dungeons, adding a parapet running round the roof-line, and changing the original courtyard.

Before that time, neighbouring buildings in various architectural styles prevented a full perspective, none more so than an adjoining grammar school with a projecting turret staircase which obscured part of the façade.

She hurtled down the north-west turret staircase with a reckless disregard for life and limb, and emerged at the point where she had entered the hall earlier that night - was it only hours ago?

The other family living rooms are in the eastern half of the ground floor of the South Front and can be reached via the Chapel Corridor on the public route or the turret staircase from the dining room.

And there are great quirky touches, such as the turret staircase at the rear of the house and the balcony that is accessed from Duncan's bedroom on the top floor, which has fantastic views over the Firth of Forth to Fife.

About in the centre of the cemetery stands a block of ruins consisting of the south-west angle of the medieval church of which the turret staircase has been carried up as the minaret of the mosque, hence the preservation of the fragment.