Drummochreen
House (16th Century) - (17th Century)
Site Name Drummochreen
Classification House (16th Century) - (17th Century)
Canmore ID 40859
Site Number NS20SE 1
NGR NS 27971 02609
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40859
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Dailly
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS20SE 1 2797 0260.
(NS 2797 0260) Drummochreen (NR) (Ruin)
OS 6" map (1911)
Nothing remains but a plain bit of ivy-clad wall with a small window in it. The house has been described by a 17th century writer.
G Turnbull 1908
The exact period of the building was not ascertained, but from the details of the wall and general layout it is probably of late 16th - 17th century date.
Visited by OS (JLD) 4 May 1954
All that remains of Drummochreen House is a fragment of the S face, 7.7m in length, containing a rectilinear window. This wall is of rubble masonry and stands to a height of 3m and is 1m thick. Its course can be further traced eastwards for a distance of 7m. The outline of the remainder of the building to the N is difficult to determine as it is covered by an area of rubble and hollows measuring roughly 16m square. The building occupied the W part of a raised platform.
Twenty-eight metres N of the remaining wall is a ditch 4.0m broad and 0.8m deep which merges at the wood on the E with a modern ditch, and towards the W turns S to the river. There is the trace of a wall on top of the scarp of the ditch, which probably extended round all sides except the S.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 November 1959
Apart from further tumble on the W side of the surviving wall there is no change to the previous reports. The ditch remains form an external courtyard drain rather than a surrounding moat.
Visited by OS (JRL) 18 May 1977
Field Visit (September 1982)
Drummochreen NS 279 026 NS20SE 1
All that remains of this building is a fragment of mortared masonry standing in the SW corner of a rectangular enclosure. The enclosure measures 35m by 30m within a ditch (5m broad and 0.8m deep where best preserved) and a slight internal bank.
RCAHMS 1983, visited September 1982
(Paterson 1863-6, ii, 224-7; Macfarlane 1906-8, ii, 11-12).