The house is protected as a category B listed building,[1] while the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.

During the Second World War it passed to Elaine Hamer's brother, Somerset de Chair, who sold it on to Colonel Sir James Horlick in 1944, who bought the island in order to extend his plant collection, which he had been developing at Titness Park in Berkshire.

The next owner in 1989 was Malcolm Potier, followed by the Holt family until in 2002 the island was purchased by its residents, and ownership of the house and gardens passed to the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust.

In order to pay back loans used for the community buy-out, the house was sold in 2003 and now operates as bed and breakfast accommodation.

The gardens include specimens of southern rātā from New Zealand, Montezuma pine from Central America, Puya alpestris from the Andes, and Wollemia nobilis from Australia.