What is recorded here
Haining Place is a ruined stone tower beside an old ford on the Cessnock Water in East Ayrshire, built or rebuilt in the 16th or 17th century for the Ross lairds. It may have begun as a medieval keep, become a dower house, then a farm and workers’ accommodation before fire broke it open. The name Haining suggests a fenced hay field, while older maps say Hatting, perhaps from a ford, and the land still keeps that boundary in its shape.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Haining Place as Lairds House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Haining Place is a medieval tower house in Scotland, possibly built by a local laird during the late medieval period. It is remembered as a surviving example of a Lairds House, reflecting the regional architecture and social structure of the time.
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