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Kilhenzie Castle
Country House (19th Century), Garden (Period Unassigned), Tower House (16th Century)
Site Name Kilhenzie Castle
Classification Country House (19th Century), Garden (Period Unassigned), Tower House (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kilkenzie Castle
Canmore ID 41510
Site Number NS30NW 10
NGR NS 30845 08238
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/41510
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maybole
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS30NW 10.00 30845 08238
NS30NW 10.01 NS 308 082 Sundial
NS30NW 10.02 NS 3054 0820 Lodge
NS30NW 10.03 NS 3075 0818 Walled Garden
(NS 3084 0823) Kilhenzie Castle (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1977)
Kilhenzie Castle is a typical example of a small late 16th century tower, with a 17th century addition. The original tower is oblong on plan, rubble-built, and rises to two storeys and an attic, with angle-turrets at eaves level. The addition, at the E, make the plan L-shaped. It is of three storeys, and does not equal the tower in height. In the re-entrant angle between tower and extension rises a modernised circular stair-tower. The interior has been much altered and some windows enlarged, the house having been restored from a ruinous condition in the second half of the 19th century. It is now in good repair and in use as a farmhouse.
Prior to the mid-17th century Kilhenzie was owned by a branch of the Baird family, but thereafter passed to the Kennedies.
N Tranter 1965; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889
Kilhenzie Castle - name confirmed - a much restored 16th century tower with later addition.
Visited by OS (JD) 29 November 1955
No change from previous report.
Visited by OS (JRL) 8 August 1977
NMRS REFERENCE:
15th C. Restored and preserved by Sir James Ferguson
