Hillhouse
House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Hillhouse
Classification House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)(Possible)
Canmore ID 42002
Site Number NS33SW 20
NGR NS 34322 33788
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42002
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Dundonald (Kyle And Carrick)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS33SW 20 3435 3379.
NS33SW 15 3434 3367 Stables
Field Visit (April 1985)
Hillhouse NS 3435 3378 NS33SW 15
The present mansion at Hillhouse (a listed building largely of 19th-century date) probably occupies the site of its predecessor which was demolished about 1800. A lintel, bearing the date 1671 and the initials JMK and EW (John McKerrell and Elizabeth Wallace), is set above the gate to the walled garden 70m to the ESE. There may have been a tower at Hillhouse about 1570.
RCAHMS 1985, visited April 1985.
(Paterson 1863-6, i, 480-5; Strawhorn 1959, 297).
